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The Wyandotte Constitution was approved by territorial referendum on October 4, 1859. In April 1860, the United States House of Representatives voted to admit Kansas under the Wyandotte Constitution. The Senate was still just as opposed to a new free state, and no action was taken until January 1861, when senators from the seceding slave states ...
Senator John J. Crittenden proposed a compromise consisting of six constitutional amendments and four Congressional resolutions, [9] which were ultimately tabled on December 31. On January 14, 1861, the House committee submitted a plan calling for an amendment to protect slavery, enforce fugitive slave laws, and repeal state personal liberty ...
At the outbreak of the American Civil War in April 1861, Kansas was the newest U.S. state, admitted just months earlier in January. The state had formally rejected slavery by popular vote and vowed to fight on the side of the Union, though ideological divisions with neighboring Missouri, a slave state, had led to violent conflict in previous years and persisted for the duration of the war.
March 2, 1861: Approved an amendment to the United States Constitution that would shield "domestic institutions" of the states (which in 1861 included slavery) from the constitutional amendment process and from abolition or interference by Congress, and submitted it to the state legislatures for ratification 12 Stat. 251
Here's how the constitutional amendment process works. ... Part of the original Bill of Rights, it was not ratified until 202 years, seven months later by a vote of Michigan in May 1992. So, 10 ...
1861, January 29: Kansas was admitted into the Union as a free state under the Wyandotte Constitution. 1861, May 25:Great Seal of the State of Kansas was established by a joint resolution adopted by the Kansas Legislature. 1861, June 3: First Kansas regiment called to duty in the American Civil War.
On Aug. 2, Kansans will decide the future of abortion rights in the state by voting on an amendment that would remove the right to abortion from the Kansas constitution.
The proposed constitutional amendment would have stripped the right to an abortion while guaranteed the Legislature had full authority to regulate the procedure as lawmakers saw fit ...