Excerpt from The Movement for Statehood, 1845-1846 Tution dates from 1879. Texas, admitted in 1846, has had four constitutions, the last 'one adopted in 1876. The pres ent constitution of Michigan is her third and was adopted in 1908. Minnesota, like Wisconsin, still retains her origi nal constitution but it is nine years younger than that of Wisconsin. Of all the states west of the Alleghenies, the con stitutions of Ohio and Indiana, the two oldest states of the Northwest Territory, most closely approach Wisconsin's in point of age. The constitutions of Indiana and Ohio were drafted in 1850 - 51. Between these and the constitution of Wisconsin there is this marked difference, however. The peo ple of Wisconsin have held no constitutional convention since 1848, and they entertain at the present time no pronounced feeling of dissatisfaction with their constitution. In Ohio constitutional conventions were held in 1873 and 1912, the dissatisfaction of the voters with the existing constitution being registered on the former occasion by a vote of more than two to one, and on the latter by more than ten to one. The constitution drafted in 1874 was rejected at the polls; the work of the convention of 1912 resulted in the adoption by the voters of thirty-four amendments to the old constitu tion, thus materially modifying its character. Indiana, like Ohio, has long been dissatisfied with her constitution, and in 1916 a new one was drafted by a convention created for this purpose. However, by reason of a supreme court decision invalidating the procedure in accordance with which the convention had been held, the voters were never given an op portunity to pass upon the document. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.