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In August 1945, a popular vote ratified the new document. The new document, however, did not represent a great change from the old constitution, of which 90% of the 1877 constitution's provisions (as amended) remained intact. [31] Once again, an extensive bill of rights was included in the new document.
e. The history of Georgia in the United States of America spans pre-Columbian time to the present-day U.S. state of Georgia. The area was inhabited by Native American tribes for thousands of years. A modest Spanish presence was established in the late 16th century, mostly centered on Catholic missions.
The 1867–1868 Georgia State Constitutional Convention was held for the purpose of constructing a constitution for the state following the end of the American Civil War. Held in Atlanta, the convention started on December 9, 1867 and ran through March 1868. Its delegates included 137 white men and 33 African American men.
Article One of the Georgia State Constitution describes the Georgia Bill of Rights, a set of forty paragraphs which enumerate the Rights of Persons, the Origin and Structure of Government and other General Provisions. [1][2] The Georgia Bill of Rights was written by Thomas R.R. Cobb under the title Declaration of Fundamental Principals, as part ...
Presidential Reconstruction. On Georgia's farms and plantations, wartime destruction, the inability to maintain a labor force without slavery, and miserable weather had a disastrous effect on agricultural production and the regional economy. The state's chief money crop, cotton, fell from a high of more than 700,000 bales in 1860 to less than ...
The 1865 constitution required governors to take four years off after serving two terms, [10] but that was quickly changed in the 1868 constitution, which allowed four-year terms with no limits. [11] The term length was returned to the two-year term and limit of the 1865 constitution in 1877. [12]
The Great Lakes (French: Grands Lacs), also called the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of large interconnected freshwater lakes spanning the Canada–United States border. The five lakes are Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario. (Hydrologically, Michigan and Huron are a single body of water, as they are joined by Straits of ...
84th Georgia General Assembly [Wikidata] 1877 Jan. 10—Feb. 22, 1877 Georgia Constitution of 1877: 85 85th Georgia General Assembly [Wikidata] 1878 Nov. 6—Dec. 13, 1878 July 2—Oct. 15, 1879 Adj. 86 86th Georgia General Assembly [Wikidata] 1880 Nov. 3—Dec. 4, 1880 July 6—Sept. 27, 1881 Adj. 87 87th Georgia General Assembly [Wikidata] 1882