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Record group: Record Group 11: General Records of the United States Government, 1778 - 2006 (National Archives Identifier: 340)Series: The Constitution of the United States, compiled 09/17/1787 - 09/17/1787 (National Archives Identifier: 595951)
The previous six were adopted in 1827 (while Texas was still part of Mexico and half of the state of Coahuila y Tejas), 1836 (the Constitution of the Republic of Texas), 1845 (upon admission to the United States), 1861 (at the beginning of the American Civil War), 1866 (at the end of the American Civil War), and 1869. Texas constitutional ...
Defunct state constitutions of the United States (25 P) Members of U.S. state constitutional conventions (5 C, 4 P) U.S. state constitutional amendments (8 C, 84 P)
The territories of the United States are "organized" and, thus, self-governing if the United States Congress has passed an Organic Act. Two of the 14 territories without commonwealth status — Guam and the United States Virgin Islands — are organized, but have not adopted their own constitutions. One unorganized territory, American Samoa ...
As William J. Chriss, author of “Six Constitutions Over Texas, Texas’ Political Identity, 1830-1900” (Texas A&M University Press) notes in his sweeping look at the six documents that formed ...
United States Constitution, page 1, by the Constitutional Convention Dust Bowl at Great Depression , from the United States Department of Agriculture Scars of Peter , by McPherson and Oliver (restored by Yann )
A few states did meet the interest payments toward the national debt owed by their citizens, but nothing greater, and no interest was paid on debts owed foreign governments. By 1786, the United States was facing default on its outstanding debts. [32] Under the Articles, the United States had little ability to defend its sovereignty.
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