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  1. Overview: Wyoming State Constitutional Convention 1889
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  3. Committee:The Convention
  4. Session: 1889-09-06 10:00:00
  5. Event type: CREATE

Wyoming State Constitutional Convention 1889

The Wyoming Constitution Convention began September 2, 1889 without the authorization from an enabling act. The articles were individually voted on, creating the final Constitution of Wyoming on September 30, 1889. It was later ratified on November 5, 1889.

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Session 5542: 1889-09-06 10:00:00

The drafts of additional articles were read and referred. Reports of standing committees were then read.

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Letter from Senator Henry W. Blair

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"U. S. Senate, Washington, D. C., August 21, 1889.

"Henry B. Blackwell, Cor. Sec’y Am. Woman’s Suffrage Asso.

"Dear Sir:—The most common argument urged by the opponents of woman suffrage to a national constitutional amendment, giving suffrage to women, is that the whole subject belongs to the states and to the people, of the states. Always in debate they tell us to go to the states and fight out the battle there.

Hence all must see that you are pursuing the very course they pronounce the proper one, in your efforts to secure the suffrage for women in the formation of the constitutions of the-new states. There is not the slightest ground to apprehend their rejection should these states apply with woman suffrage in their constitutions.

There is a very general willingness that the experiment be tried, even by those who have no faith in the result. Tried* it must be and the sooner the better.

"Truly Yours,

"HENRY W. BLAIR."

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