[Tennessee]:

$16,500 · Offered by William Reese Company · No longer available

[ANNOTATED DRAFT COPIES OF THE TENNESSEE CONSTITUTION, PLUS PRINTED AMENDMENTS AND INSTRUCTIONS, ACCOMPANIED BY A SERIES OF HANDWRITTEN NOTES, EMANATING FROM THE 1834 STATE CONSTITUTIONAL ... A remarkable series of annotated draft copies of the Tennessee state Constitution, plus printed amendments and corrections, with an additional two sheets of handwritten notes, from the 1834 convention to revise the state constitution, the new version of which was adopted in 1835.Tennessee's first constitution was adopted in 1796 in Knoxville by a convention of fifty-five delegates, a document that Thomas Jefferson called the "least imperfect and most republican of the state constitutions." In 1834 a state constitutional convention was held in Nashville with sixty delegates in attendance and presided over by William Carter. It revised the constitution to reflect the state's growing population (more than six times what its size had been in 1796) and to update the court system and address some of the problems in the original constitution. This 1834 revision was centered mainly on taxation to reflect the state's increasingly urban nature, and on the courts (providing for a state Supreme Court with three judges, one from each grand division of the state). It also required the legislature to cherish literature and science, and established the common school fund. Although anti-slavery advocates petitioned the convention to abolish slavery, their efforts were rebuffed, and in fact the delegates

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