Author: John Ross BrownePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Report of the Debates in the Convention of California on the Formation of the State Constitution in Sept. and Oct. 1849
Author: John Ross BrownePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Report of the Debates in the Convention of California, on the Formation of the State Constitution, in September and October, 1849
Author: California. Constitutional ConventionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
John Ross Browne (1817-1875) of Kentucky, the official reporter for the California State Constitutional Convention of September-October 1849, came to California in 1849 as an employee of the government revenue service. He traveled widely in the next two decades before settling down in Oakland. Report of the debates of the Convention of California (1850) comprises the official records of the convention. Browne had been a shorthand reporter for the U.S. Senate before coming west, and he provides transcripts of the proclamation calling the convention, proceedings of the convention, text of the state constitution adopted by the delegates, and official correspondence regarding the convention and the institution of state government under that constitution.
Report of the Debates in the Convention of California on the Formation of the State Constitution, in September and October, 1849 by J. Ross Browne
Author: CaliforniaDemocratic Beginnings
Author: Amy BridgesPublisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700625216
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
State constitutions are blueprints for government institutions, declarations of collective identity, statements of principle, values, and goals. It naturally follows, and this book demonstrates, that the founding documents and the conventions that produced them reflect the emerging dynamics of American democracy in the nineteenth century. Nowhere is this more clear, Amy Bridges tells us in Democratic Beginnings, than in the American West. A close study of the constitutional conventions that founded eleven Western states, and of the constitutions they wrote, Democratic Beginnings traces the arc of Western development. Spanning the sixty years from California's constitution of 1850 to those of Arizona and New Mexico in 1910—and including Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, and Wyoming—Bridges shows how delegates to these states' constitutional conventions, pragmatically and creatively devised law and policy for the unprecedented challenges they faced. Far from the "island communities" of conventional 19th-century American history, these delegates, and the territories they represented, were thoroughly engaged in the central issues of their times, at the local, regional, and national levels--mining and agriculture, labor law and corporate responsibilities, water rights and government obligations, education and judicial practice. Theirs was not the Founders' constitutional convention. With very different tasks, delegates more representative of the population, and the experience of living in a democratic republic that their forebears lacked, the Western delegates found unparalleled opportunities at the conventions for popular input into law and public policy. What they did with these opportunities, and how these in turn shaped the emerging American West, is the story Democratic Beginnings tells.
Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia
Author: A catalogue of the books belonging to the Library company of Philadelphia
Author: Library company of PhiladelphiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1150
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia: Sciences and arts
Author: A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia
Author: Catalogue of the State Library of Wisconsin
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368165046
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1872.
Continental Reckoning
Author: Elliott WestPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496233581
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Elliott West lays out the main events and developments that together describe and explain the emergence of the American West and situates the birth of the West in the broader narrative of American history between 1848 and 1880.