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The convention met July 5, 1859 in the former community of Wyandotte, today part of Kansas City, Kansas. 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 constitution settled the terms of Kansas' admission to the United States, particularly establishing that it would be a free state rather than a slave state. [1] The constitution represented a pragmatic compromise over hotly contested issues: it rejected slavery and affirmed separate property rights for married women and their right to participate in school elections, but also denied ...
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.
The U.S. constitutional amendment process. Thirty-three amendments to the United States Constitution have been approved by the Congress and sent to the states for ratification. Twenty-seven of these amendments have been ratified and are now part of the Constitution. The first ten amendments were adopted and ratified simultaneously and are known ...
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.
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.
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 ...
Every ballot cast in Kansas’ vote rejecting an amendment to strip abortion rights from the state’s constitution will be recounted by hand — despite the proposal’s landslide defeat.