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Although Wisconsin continues to use the original constitution ratified as Wisconsin achieved statehood, the current constitution is the second document to be proposed as the state constitution. In 1846, the residents of Wisconsin Territory first voted to apply for statehood, and they elected 124 representatives to meet in Madison to author a ...
June 10, 1846: The California Republic declared independence from Mexico. August 3, 1846: Abraham Lincoln was elected to the United States House of Representatives from Illinois's 7th congressional district. October 5 – December 16, 1846: The first Wisconsin constitutional convention was held in Madison, Wisconsin Territory. [1]
The first state constitutional convention for Wisconsin met on October 5, 1846. [1] Delegates to the convention proposed giving African Americans, Native Americans, and immigrants in the process of becoming citizens the right to vote. [2] [3] James Magone of Milwaukee proposed that the word "male" be removed from the qualifications for a voter. [4]
In 1846, Strong was selected to represent Iowa County in the first convention to draft a constitution for the future state of Wisconsin. (This draft was rejected by the people in 1847.) The Constitutional Convention's journal recorded Strong's opposition to black suffrage, with Strong noting that he "was a friend to females, and it was for that ...
Old Wisconsin Flag, Theodore Youmans, 1915. This is a timeline of women's suffrage in Wisconsin. Women's suffrage efforts began before the Civil War. The first Wisconsin state constitutional convention in 1846 discussed both women's suffrage and African-American suffrage. In the end, a more conservative constitution was adopted by Wisconsin.
A “yes” vote on the first question would add to the Wisconsin Constitution an amendment prohibiting the Legislature from delegating its power to appropriate money while a “no” vote would ...
In late 1846 during the convention to write a state constitution, two meetings were held to organize a state historical society. They adopted a constitution for the society, chose A. Hyatt Smith of Janesville as first president, and chose Governor Doty as one of the vice-presidents. But the newborn historical society seems to have done little ...
These questions are consequential to how we run our elections but the execution of what happens if they pass has not been thought through.