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The current two-year term of the legislature (January 11, 2023 – January 8, 2025) is the 102nd Legislature. Each year during which the Legislature meets constitutes a new legislative session. According to Article IV Section 13 of the Michigan Constitution, a new session of the Legislature begins when the members of each house convene, on the ...
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]
The 1st Michigan Legislature, consisting of the Michigan Senate and the Michigan House of Representatives, met in Detroit in three sessions between November 2, 1835, and July 26, 1836, during the first year of Stevens T. Mason's governorship of the (prospective) state. The legislature met with the expectation that Michigan would be granted ...
Michigan State Constitution of 1835: 1st Michigan Legislature: November 2, 1835 July 26, 1836 October 5, 1835 2nd Michigan Legislature [Wikidata] January 2, 1837 December 30, 1837 November 7, 1836 3rd Michigan Legislature [Wikidata] January 1, 1838 April 6, 1838 November 6, 1837 4th Michigan Legislature [Wikidata] January 7, 1839 April 20, 1839
As a result of this heritage, the New England element of Michigan's population would remain culturally and politically dominant for a long time. [37] Michigan's oldest university, the University of Michigan was founded in Detroit in 1817 and was later moved to its present location in Ann Arbor.
The current two-year term of the legislature (January 1, 2025 – December 31, 2026) is the 103rd Legislature. Each year during which the legislature meets constitutes a new legislative session. According to Article IV Section 13 of the State Constitution, a new session of the legislature begins when the members of each house convene, on the ...
After the arrival of Europeans, the area that became the Michigan Territory was first under French and then British control. The first Jesuit mission, in 1668 at Sault Saint Marie, led to the establishment of further outposts at St. Ignace (where a mission began work in 1671) and Detroit, first occupied in 1701 by the garrison of the former Fort de Buade under the leadership of Antoine de La ...
The Michigan Legislature is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is organized as a bicameral institution consisting of the Senate, the upper house, and the House of Representatives, the lower house. Article IV of the Michigan Constitution, adopted in 1963, defines the role of the legislature and how it is to be constituted.