Democratic beginnings
Subtitle: founding the Western States
By: Amy Bridges
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9780700621729
Subjects: Constitutional history; Politics and government; Democracy; State governments; Constitutional conventions; History
Description: "Accounts of the constitutional conventions that founded the western states--Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming--and the constitutions they wrote"--Page 1.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-189) and index.
Table of contents: title: Upon the shores of an unknown sea; title: Frontier foundings; title: Managing the periphery; title: Progressive settlements; title: Creating the western states.