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The Nevada Constitution was created in 1864 at a convention on July 4 in Carson City. The convention adjourned on July 28, was approved by public vote on the first Wednesday in September, and became effective on October 31, when on that date President Abraham Lincoln declared Nevada to be a state.
The History of Nevada as a state began when it became the 36th state on October 31, 1864, after telegraphing the Constitution of Nevada to the Congress days before the November 8 presidential election (the largest and costliest transmission ever by telegraph).
Signature page for the telegraph transmission of the first Nevada State Constitution, October 1864. The handwritten annotation at the bottom shows the word count (16,543) and cost ($4303.27). Prior to the Civil War, the geographic area that makes up present-day Nevada belonged to several different U.S. territories .
It created the nine original counties during its first session outside Carson City. [ 3 ] Nevada became a state under the Nevada Constitution of 1864, vests the legislative authority of the state in a Senate and Assembly, which are designated "The Legislature of the State of Nevada ". [ 4 ]
The legislature of the U.S. state of Nevada has convened many times since statehood became effective on October 31, 1864. It continues to operate under the amended Constitution of Nevada of 1864 . [ 1 ]
A proposed amendment to enshrine access to abortion in Nevada’s constitution is one step closer to appearing on the battleground state's November 2024 ballot.
Nevadans voted in support of putting a fundamental right to abortion up until fetal viability and afterwards if necessary for the woman’s mental or physical health in the state constitution with ...
The following table is a list of all 50 states and their respective dates of statehood. The first 13 became states in July 1776 upon agreeing to the United States Declaration of Independence, and each joined the first Union of states between 1777 and 1781, upon ratifying the Articles of Confederation, its first constitution. [6]