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Title: History of the Constitutions of Iowa

Author: Benjamin F. Shambaugh

Release Date: February 21, 2010 [EBook #31335]

Language: English

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Produced by Don Kostuch, from files obtained from The Internet Archive.

[Transcribers notes]
This text is derived from a raw txt file in the Internet Archive.

Obvious misspellings have been corrected but quotations and contemporary
spellings are unchanged.

The St. Peters river is mentioned as a proposed northern border for
the new state of Iowa. It is now named the Minnesota river; it runs
from western Minnesota (about 120 miles north of the final Iowa
border at 43.5 degrees North) southeast to Mankato (about 45 miles
north of the Iowa border), then to the Twin Cities (about 120 miles
north of the Iowa border). Had the St. Peters been adopted about
15,000 square miles of what is now Minnesota would have been Iowa.
Another proposal to extend the border to the 45th parallel would
have put most of the Twin Cities in Iowa.
[End Transcriber's note]

HISTORY OF THE CONSTITUTIONS OF IOWA

BY

BENJAMIN F. SHAMBAUGH, PH. D.

PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL SCIENCE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA

PUBLISHED BY
THE HISTORICAL DEPARTMENT OF IOWA
DES MOINES, IOWA
1902

TO HIS FRIEND
CHARLES ALDRICH
FOUNDER AND CURATOR OF
THE HISTORICAL DEPARTMENT OF IOWA
THIS VOLUME IS GRATEFULLY DEDICATED
BY THE AUTHOR

PREFACE

To recur occasionally to the history and ideals of our pioneer
forefathers will give us a more generous appreciation of the worth of
our Commonwealth and a firmer faith in our own provincial character. It
is believed that a more intimate knowledge of the political history of
our own Commonwealth will not only inspire local patriotism, but give us
a better perspective of the political life of the Nation.

This little volume was written for publication by the Historical
Department of Iowa upon the request of Mr. Charles Aldrich. Since the
work