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... sweeps over the alamedas. They dash across the Salinas and up to wooded Monterey. There the first constitutional convention assembles. ...

— The Little Lady of Lagunitas • Richard Henry Savage

... %174. Call for the Constitutional Convention.%—Finding that it could do nothing, because so few states were represented, and because the powers of the delegates were so limited, the convention recommended that all the states in the Union be asked by Congress to send delegates to a new convention, to meet ...

— A School History of the United States • John Bach McMaster

... chiefly framed the first laws of the state. Judge Burnet, one of them, had intrusted to him the preparation of most of the laws of the territorial government. The principal lawyers appeared in the constitutional convention and in the legislatures subsequent, and contributed more than their share in ingrafting upon our statutes the republican principles and ideas found in the first constitution and laws of the state. They shared with other settlers in all the hardships of pioneer life. Innumerable anecdotes of their ...

— Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet - An Autobiography. • John Sherman

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