Constitutional Conventions in the Old Northwest
by
Silvana R. Siddali
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Frontier Democracy examines the debates over state constitutions in the antebellum Northwest (Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin) from the 1820s through the 1850s. This is a book about conversations: in particular, the fights and negotiations over the core ideals in...