Report of the Proceedings and Debates in the Convention to Revise the Constitution of the State of Michigan. 1850
Author: Michigan. Constitutional Convention
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Published: 1850
Total Pages: 990
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The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, and Other Organic Laws of the State, Territories, and Colonies Now Or Hertofore Forming the United States of America
Author: Francis Newton Thorpe
Publisher:
Published: 1909
Total Pages: 698
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmerican Indians and State Law
Author: Deborah A. Rosen
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2007-01-01
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 0803239688
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmerican Indians and State Law examines the history of state and territorial policies, laws, and judicial decisions pertaining to Native Americans from 1790 to 1880. Belying the common assumption that Indian policy and regulation in the United States were exclusively within the federal government's domain, the book reveals how states and territories extended their legislative and judicial authority over American Indians during this period. Deborah A. Rosen uses discussions of nationwide patterns, complemented by case studies focusing on New York, Georgia, New Mexico, Michigan, Minnesota, Louisiana, and Massachusetts, to demonstrate the decentralized nature of much of early American Indian policy. This study details how state and territorial governments regulated American Indians and brought them into local criminal courts, as well as how Indians contested the actions of states and asserted tribal sovereignty. Assessing the racial conditions of incorporation into the American civic community, Rosen examines the ways in which state legislatures treated Indians as a distinct racial group, explores racial issues arising in state courts, and analyzes shifts in the rhetoric of race, culture, and political status during state constitutional conventions. She also describes the politics of Indian citizenship rights in the states and territories. Rosen concludes that state and territorial governments played an important role in extending direct rule over Indians and in defining the limits and the meaning of citizenship.
The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, and Other Organic Laws of the State, Territories, and Colonies Now Or Heretofore Forming the United States of America: United States ; Alabama ; District of Columbia
Author: Francis Newton Thorpe
Publisher:
Published: 1909
Total Pages: 696
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Author: Francis Newton Thorpe
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Published: 1909
Total Pages: 702
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPathways to Prohibition
Author: Ann-Marie E. Szymanski
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2003-08-21
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780822331698
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDIVSzymanski uses the Prohibition movement as an example of the challenges facinbg all social reform movements./div
Law and the Shaping of Public Education, 1785-1954
Author: David B. Tyack
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780299108847
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing case studies as illustrations, this text explores the ways in which public schooling was shaped by state constitutions, by state statutes and administrative law, and by appellate decisions concerning public public education.
Michigan's Company K
Author: Michelle K Cassidy
Publisher: MSU Press
Published: 2023-09-01
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 1609177401
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs much as the Civil War was a battle over the survival of the United States, for the men of Company K of the First Michigan Sharpshooters, it was also one battle in a longer struggle for the survival of Anishinaabewaki, the homelands of the Anishinaabeg—Ojibwe, Odawa, and Boodewaadamii peoples . The men who served in what was often called ‘the Indian Company’ chose to enlist in the Union army to contribute to their peoples’ ongoing struggle with the state and federal governments over status, rights, resources, and land in the Great Lakes. This meticulously researched history begins in 1763 with Pontiac’s War, a key moment in Anishinaabe history. It then explores the multiple strategies the Anishinaabeg deployed to remain in Michigan despite federal pressure to leave. Anishinaabe men claimed the rights and responsibilities associated with male citizenship—voting, owning land, and serving in the army—while actively preserving their status as ‘Indians’ and Anishinaabe peoples. Indigenous expectations of the federal government, as well as religious and social networks, shaped individuals’ decisions to join the U.S. military. The stories of Company K men also broaden our understanding of the complex experiences of Civil War soldiers. In their fight against removal, dispossession, political marginalization, and loss of resources in the Great Lakes, the Anishinaabeg participated in state and national debates over citizenship, allegiance, military service, and the government’s responsibilities to veterans and their families.
Liberty, Property, and Government
Author: Ellen Frankel Paul
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1989-07-03
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780791400876
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the constitutional protection of economic rights through the nineteenth century and the first three decades of the twentieth. The authors grapple with such questions as: how should the commerce clause be interpreted? To what extent did the historical development of eminent domain law depart from the rhetoric of takings jurisprudence? How was the Constitution connected to economic growth in the nineteenth century? What was the effect of the post-/civil War constitutional amendments? How did the right to contract affect government attempts to balance private rights with the public good? What was the reaction of leading constitutional theorists to the dominance of a laissez-fair philosophy in the Court and the nation at the turn of the century?
The Frontier Against Slavery
Author: Eugene H. Berwanger
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780252070563
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEugene H. Berwanger's study of anti-slavery sentiment in the antebellum West is as resoundingly important now, in a new paperback edition, as when first published in 1967. In The Frontier against Slavery, Berwanger attributes the social and political climates of the states and territories Ohio River Valley pioneers settled before 1860 to racial prejudice. Drawing from newspaper accounts, political speeches, correspondence, and legal documents, Berwanger reveals that the whites-only sentiments of the pioneers, rather than humanitarian concern for African Americans, limited the expansion of slavery. This whites-only prejudice shaped laws in the majority of western states and territories that excluded all African Americans, enslaved or free, from citizenship, evidencing the deep-rooted discrimination of political leaders and pioneers.
