2 1850 newspapers CALIFORNIA forms its 1st CONSTITUTION & Applies for STATEHOOD

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2 1850 newspapers CALIFORNIA forms its 1st CONSTITUTION & Applies for STATEHOOD:
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SEE PHOTO-----Two (2) COMPLETE, ORIGINALNEWSPAPERs,the Vermont Journal (Windsor, VT) dated Feb 1 and 8, 1850.

These newspapers contain reports of the 1st Constitution adopted for CALIFORNIA in anticipation of its application for Statehood. California would be adopted as a new state in the Union as a part of the COMPROMISE of 1850 engineered by US Senators Henry Clay and Daniel Webster.

This newspapercontains National and International news as well as LOCALWinsdor, VT news and ads from 165 years ago.

The California Constitution is the document that establishes and describes the duties, powers, structure and function of the government of the U.S. state of California. The original constitution, adopted in November 1849 in advance of California attaining U.S. statehood in 1850, was superseded by the current constitution, which was ratified on May 7, 1879. The result of Progressive mistrust of elected officials, the 1879 constitution is the third longest in the world (behind the constitutions of Alabama and of India), and has been described as \"the perfect example of what a constitution ought not to be\".

The first California Constitutional Convention took place in September and October in 1849. Bvt. Brig. Gen. Bennett C. Riley, ex-officio Governor of California, issued a proclamation on 3 June 1849 calling for a convention and a special election on August 1 where delegates to the convention would be elected.

The memorial presenting the proposed constitution to Congress claimed it banned slavery not because of anti-slavery sentiment, but just unanimous agreement (including convention delegates originally from slave states) that California\'s climate and soil were not suitable for slave labor. It also described the proposed Eastern boundary as a compromise between those who wished to include all of former Mexican Alta California (including today\'s Nevada, Utah, and Arizona) and a committee-proposed Eastern boundary at 116° (including the western half of Nevada but excluding the Lower Colorado River Valley and Imperial Valley), and denied having considered north-south division at the Missouri Compromise Line (south of Carmel and Fresno), saying Southern Californians had no interest in division.

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