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CONTENTS
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INTRODUCTION ..............................................
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CHAPTER I
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CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM..
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General Sketch.—State Reform Convention of 1836.—Internal
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Improvement and Taxation.—Object Sought by the Re-
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formers.—Southern Counties Opposed to a Convention.—
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State Reform Convention of 1845.—Reform Agitation
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1847-9.—State Reform Convention 1849.—The Legisla-
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ture of 1849.—The Referendum...........................
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CHAPTER II
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THE CONVENTION.
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Sectionalism.—Personnel of the Convention.—The Convention
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and the Compromise Acts of 1850.—Basis of Representa-
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tion.—Secession of Eastern from the Western Shore.—
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Committee's Report on Representation.—An Elective ver-
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sus an Appointive Judiciary.—Political Individuality of
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Counties.—United States Senatorial Districts.—Free-
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Negro Population.—Public-School System...............
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CHAPTER III
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THE CONSTITUTION.
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Ratification of the Constitution.—Critical and Comparative
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Study of the Constitution................................
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APPENDIX.
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Vote by Counties on Call of the Convention.—Vote by Coun-
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ties on Adoption of Constitution.........................
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