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The Tennessee State Constitution. Lewis L. Laska. Oxford University Press, 2011 - Law - 200 pages. Tennesseans pioneered innovations in self-government beginning in 1772, and they have...
The first Constitution of the state of Tennessee was written in Knoxville during the winter of 1796, the year the state was created from the geographic area known as the Southwest Territory.
Documenting the constitutional history of Tennessee, Part one charts the rise to statehood and the constitutions of 1796, 1835, and that of 1870 which remained unamended until 1953.
This essential guide to the Tennessee constitution also presents valuable commentary on the constitution's preamble and 11 articles including the declaration of rights, the distribution of powers, the executive department, elections, impeachments, the judicial department, state and county officers, militia, disqualification, oaths, bribery of ...
Drafted hastily by convention in the winter of 1796, Tennessee's first Constitution was sent to the seat of national government in Philadelphia for ratification in spring of that same year. The positions on individual rights and suffrage distinguish this Constitution from others of its time.
5 Νοε 2009 · Tennessee. Constitutional Convention (1796) Publisher Nashville, Tennessee : Marshall & Bruce Collection cornell; americana Contributor Cornell University Library Language English Item Size 57.0M
Tennessee was erected into a state in 1796, it adopted with only the necessary changes the constitution and laws of North Carolina, and with them inherited the parent state's policy of non-interference in matters of education."
