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Ohio counties in 1802. The Enabling Act of 1802 was passed on April 30, 1802, by the Seventh Congress of the United States. This act authorized the residents of the eastern portion of the Northwest Territory to form the state of Ohio and join the U.S. on an equal footing with the other states. In doing so it also established the precedent and ...
The act required the people of Ohio to elect a delegate for each 1,200 people to attend a constitutional convention. These delegates would meet in Chillicothe on November 1, 1802, and would decide by majority vote whether or not to form a constitution and state government, and, if so, either provide for the election of representatives for a ...
This is the same constitution under which the state of Ohio operates. The later "constitutions" were viewed as such, but in reality were large-scale revisions. [5]: 483 Two key issues debated at the convention were African American suffrage and prohibition of alcohol. Delegates rejected proposals to allow Black suffrage in the state.
May 6: A state Constitutional Convention is convened in Columbus. [3] A proposal to remove both "white" and "male" from the legal description of a voter in the constitution fails by a large margin. [4] 1851. The Ohio Women's Convention in Akron, Ohio had Sojourner Truth as a speaker on African-American women and equality. [2] 1852
Cutler was nominated by his party at a county convention to be one of those four, who were each elected as delegates in September, and Cutler sat as a delegate to the Ohio Constitutional Convention November 1–29, 1802, [18] which wrote the Constitution accepted by Congress, and led to statehood in 1803.
A federal judge has upheld as constitutional provisions of the sweeping election law that Ohio put in place last year, rejecting a Democratic law firm's challenge to strict new photo ID ...
Native American history of Ohio (14 C, ... Ohio Constitutional Convention (1802) D. Dohrman Tract; Donation Tract; E. Enabling Act of 1802; Ephraim Kimberly Grant; F.
Ohio voters on Tuesday resoundingly rejected a Republican-backed measure that would have made it more difficult to change the state’s constitution, setting up a fall campaign that will become ...