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Alaska Statehood Act; Long title: An Act to provide for the admission of the State of Alaska into the Union. Enacted by: the 85th United States Congress: Citations; Public law: Pub. L. 85–508: Statutes at Large: 72 Stat. 339: Codification; Titles amended: Title 28—Judiciary and Judicial Procedure: Legislative history
This is a list of the individual Alaska year pages. In 1959, the United States admitted the Alaska as the 49th U.S. state, establishing the State of Alaska. [1] 20th ...
The Alaska Statutes comprise the statutory law of the U.S. state of Alaska, ... Alaska Statutes (2018) - The Alaska State Legislature This page was last edited on 7 ...
Alaska was purchased by the United States in 1867, however, it did not become an incorporated territory of the United States until 1912. [2] The Constitution of Alaska, itself ratified by a vote of the people in 1956, outlined specific guidelines for ballot measures in Article XI, stating that "the people may propose and enact laws by the initiative, and approve or reject acts of the ...
When Alaska became a state in 1959, section 4 of the Alaska Statehood Act provided that any existing Alaska Native land claims would be unaffected by statehood and held in status quo. [5] [6] Yet while section 4 of the act preserved Native land claims until later settlement, section 6 allowed for the state government to claim lands deemed ...
At 663,268 square miles (1,717,856 km 2) in total area, Alaska is by far the largest state in the United States. Alaska is more than twice the size of the second-largest U.S. state (Texas), and it is larger than the next three largest states (Texas, California, and Montana) combined. Alaska is the seventh largest subnational division in the world.
The UA gymnasium/library where the constitution was signed on February 6, 1956, currently known as Signers' Hall. On November 8, 1955, 55 elected delegates from across Alaska (a number chosen to echo the 55 in attendance at the Philadelphia Convention of 1787) met at the brand new student union building at the University of Alaska.
The government of Alaska in common with state and federal governments of the United States, has three branches of government: the executive, consisting of the Governor of Alaska and the state agencies; the state legislature consisting of two chambers, the House of Representatives and the Senate; and the judiciary consisting of the Supreme court and lower courts.