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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Constitutional Convention"”.

  1. Acts and Enactments. The Constitutional Convention of 1787

    Rothman, Rozann ColeUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2014

    Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-08T23:26:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6711912.pdf: 8160566 bytes, checksum: ddecface225527814b1e62896ad6a6ac (MD5) Previous issue date: 1967

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  2. The 1969 Illinois Constitutional Convention Delegate Election and Voter Rationality

    Walter, B. OliverUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2014

    Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T21:38:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7317463.pdf: 12284196 bytes, checksum: db64bd0e99ac28691d8c78095a4e64c1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1972

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  3. State Constitutional Revision and the Urban Crisis: The Sixth Illinois Constitutional Convention

    Kitsos, Thomas RobertUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2014

    Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T21:38:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7317279.pdf: 15155333 bytes, checksum: 392f041910fa5963ab5fb1bc64388a40 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1972

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  4. THE CEMENT OF INTEREST: INTERSTATE INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS, INTERSTATE COMMERCE, AND THE TRANSITION FROM THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION TO THE CONSTITUTION, 1783-1786

    Lillard, Scott K.Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies2013

    … shows how commercial issues helped lead to the Constitutional Convention of 1787. Under the Articles of Confederation (1781-1789), interstate tariffs impeded domestic commerce and free trade with foreign countries threatened to undermine America’s economic independence. These two problems …

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  5. Sectionalism and the Representation Debate, 1787-1792

    Grenier, John E.

    … issue was first debated during the Constitutional Convention in 1787. After a temporary settlement of the representation guestion in the Convention, the First Congress re-opened the apportionment debate. The result was a constitutional amendment that would have significantly …

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  6. Examining Contemporary Congressional Theories Historically: Essays on the Congress of the Confederate States of America

    Jenkins, Jeffery AlanUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2015

    … due to partisan activity within the Confederate Constitutional Convention. In short, Democrats used their majority status to prohibit, through Constitutional amendment, the two major issues (protective tariffs and federal funding for internal improvements) that served as the basis for the Whig …

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  7. Eugene Casserly His Political and Legal Career

    White, Winifred Mary

    … administration, Casserly stead­fastly upheld constitutional principles and advocated a tempered, conciliatory treatment of the seceded states. Later, in the California Convention of 1878* he worked on the Constitution under which the state of California is still governed.</p> <p>Sources of …

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  8. East is East and West is West: Philadelphia Newspaper Coverage of the East-West Divide in Early America

    Leath, Susan ElizabethUniversity of North Texas2007

    … Regulator Rebellion, Shays's Rebellion, and Constitutional Convention. Through the choices of what words to use to describe these clashes, through oversights, omissions, and misrepresentations, and sometimes through more direct tactics, Philadelphia newspapermen revealed a persistent cultural …

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  9. COAG, democracy and the Australian Constitution: you can choose two

    Bruerton, Mark Kenneth2016

    … is more to the story. If COAG is fulfilling a constitutional role as well as a political role, the consequences of its democratic deficit could be far more wide-reaching, threatening the democratic integrity of the constitutional system. In order to determine whether this is the case, this …

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  10. We the "White" People: Race, Culture, and the Virginia Constitution of 1902

    Boggs, JeremyVirginia Tech2003

    … rule over blacks, the delegates to Virginia's Constitutional Convention of 1901-1902 declared the new constitution law that they felt reflected "the true opinion of the people of Virginia." This thesis argues that while Virginia's 1902 Constitution increased the political power of whites and …

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  11. That We May Exert Our Influence More Powerfully: Race, Politics and Identity in Ohio's Southeast Borderland, 1802-1865

    Christy, Miranda RoseVirginia Tech2023

    The Ohio constitutional convention in 1802 established Ohio's status as a free state, marking the Ohio River as the border between slavery and freedom. However, slaveholder influence continued to permeate the region as questions over fugitive slaves, Black migration, and the rights of free African …

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  12. Suffrage for White Men Only: The Disfranchisement of Free Men of Color in Antebellum North Carolina

    Kelley, Lucas PatrickVirginia Tech2015

    … ideology converged in the 1835 North Carolina Constitutional Convention. On the one hand, free men of color voted, a right permitted in North Carolina for all taxpaying men regardless of race and one of the most crucial components of citizenship in the early republic and Jacksonian periods. But …

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  13. John Marshall: The development years, 1755-1800

    Vogt, Cynthia L.Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University1975

    … central government during the Virginia Federal Constitutional Convention of 1788. Marshall's reputation grew in prominence until he was appointed special envoy to France in 1797. Upon his return from France, Marshall was welcomed as a hero because of his staunch refusal to pay a bribe demanded …

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  14. Loyalist or Patriot: The Precarious Position of Edmund Randolph, 1774-1786

    Staten, Tanisha Jean2018

    … Governor Edmund Randolph took the floor of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia with a radical plan for a new federal government. Randolph was a key member of the influential Virginia delegation which paved the way for United States' Constitutionalism. An examination of his early life, …

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  15. The manipulation of time and the legitimacy of power during the American and French Revolutions, 1774-1815

    Jones, Rhys PeterUniversity of Cambridge2017

    … justifying the quasi-legal enterprises of the Constitutional Convention, 1787, and the coup of Brumaire, 1799; and (5) a comparative analysis of the interaction between power politics and temporality under the administration of George Washington and the Napoleonic Empire.

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  16. The Politics of Epithets in the American Revolution, 1763-87

    Bell-Romero, NicolasUniversity of Cambridge2020

    … start of the imperial crisis in 1763 until the Constitutional Convention in 1787. More than mere insults, epithets were defined in this period as appellations or titles and were used to describe a person’s qualities or attributes. Despite the importance of these identity terms as the ideals that …

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  17. A historico-legal overview on the impeachment system under the United States and the United Kingdom constitutions and any relevance to Malta

    University of Malta2021

    … impeachment, mostly during the 1787 Philadelphia Constitutional Convention and Debates. The discussion will cover the legal background of the constitutional founding fathers/notable framers of the U.S constitution and their reasoning behind their justified and well-founded fears on the dangers of …

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  18. Originalism & Judicially-Enacted Religious Exemptions: Revisiting <em>Employment Division of Oregon v. Smith</em>

    Coykendall, Eric Russell2024

    … of religious liberty. Chapter 5 considers the Constitutional Convention, the text of the Constitution, and The Federalist Papers for clues about how the writers of the Constitution intended to protect religious liberty. Chapter 6 includes a narrative history of the state ratification debates, …

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