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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.
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
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).
Constitution of 1796] of papers investigating the official conduct of officers, or men in public capacity, the truth thereof may be given in evidence; and in all indictments for libel [“libels” in Constitutions of
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.
The original 1796 constitution is kept at the Tennessee State Library and Archives. Click here to see a digital image of the 1796 Constitution and download a transcription. The constitution was revised in 1834 to update the court system and address some of the problems in the original constitution.
CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE (1796) 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 ...
