Report of the Debates in the Convention of California, on the Formation of the State Constitution, in September and October, 1849J. T. Towers, 1850 - 479 halaman John Ross Browne (1817-1875) of Kentucky, the official reporter for the California State Constitutional Convention of September-October 1849, came to California in 1849 as an employee of the government revenue service. He traveled widely in the next two decades before settling down in Oakland. Report of the debates of the Convention of California (1850) comprises the official records of the convention. Browne had been a shorthand reporter for the U.S. Senate before coming west, and he provides transcripts of the proclamation calling the convention, proceedings of the convention, text of the state constitution adopted by the delegates, and official correspondence regarding the convention and the institution of state government under that constitution. |
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... hope by mutual concessions , all these questions may be amicably arranged , and that a spirit of ha and good will may prevail in your councils . You have an important work before you- the of the corner - stone of the State structure ...
... hope by mutual concessions , all these questions may be amicably arranged , and that a spirit of ha and good will may prevail in your councils . You have an important work before you- the of the corner - stone of the State structure ...
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... hope of being enabled to serve that constituency who had conferred the honor of election upon him . He had agreed to every honorable compromise proposed by gentlemen on the floor , and had studiously avoided everything calculated to ...
... hope of being enabled to serve that constituency who had conferred the honor of election upon him . He had agreed to every honorable compromise proposed by gentlemen on the floor , and had studiously avoided everything calculated to ...
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... hope the article will be adopted . Perhaps I am hoping against hope ; yet I must say , that in practice , as well as in theory , the principle of taking human life , as a punishment for crime , is wrong . Our books are full of instances ...
... hope the article will be adopted . Perhaps I am hoping against hope ; yet I must say , that in practice , as well as in theory , the principle of taking human life , as a punishment for crime , is wrong . Our books are full of instances ...
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... hope this article may be incorporated in the bill of rights . With these remarks , I submit it to the House . Let Mr. McCARVER seconded the resolution , not because he believed the House would adopt it , or that it could be adopted here ...
... hope this article may be incorporated in the bill of rights . With these remarks , I submit it to the House . Let Mr. McCARVER seconded the resolution , not because he believed the House would adopt it , or that it could be adopted here ...
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... hope that the distinguished mouth- piece of little Delaware did not entirely exhaust the wisdom of his State or its representative , by this sage remark . However insulting it may be to this great territory and its inhabitants , we can ...
... hope that the distinguished mouth- piece of little Delaware did not entirely exhaust the wisdom of his State or its representative , by this sage remark . However insulting it may be to this great territory and its inhabitants , we can ...
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