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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.
Tennessee's first constitution, adopted in 1796. Handwritten in ink on paper. The 1796 Tennessee Constitution was drafted in Knoxville over a four week period by a convention of fifty-five delegates (five delegates from each of the territory's eleven counties).
The first Constitution of Tennessee was adopted in convention February 6, 1796, and was effective when Tennessee was admitted to the Union June 1, 1796. The second Constitution was adopted in convention, which met in Nashville in 1834 and was submitted to the voters in 1835, becoming effective on proclamation of the governor on March 27, 1835.
1796 Tennessee Constitution. We the People of the Territory of the United States south of the River Ohio having the right of admission into the General Government as a member State thereof, consistent with the Constitution of the United States and the act of Cession of the State of North Carolina, recognizing the Ordinance for the Government of ...
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...
Constitution of the State of Tennessee WHEREAS, the general assembly of said State of Tennessee, under and in virtue of the first section of the first article of the Declara¬ tion of Rights, contained in and forming a part of the existing constitution of the state, by an act [Acts 1869-70, ch. 105] passed
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.
