Constitutions of the World from the late 18th Century to the Middle of the 19th Century: Part VII Vermont – Wisconsin / Addendum et Corrigendum

The seven-volume edition contains 446 constitutional texts, constitutional amendments, failed constitutions and draft constitutions from the United States, all in their original languages and alphabetically ordered by states. The texts, including some rare original versions, have been edited and annotated on the basis of the printed official state documents and conventions, consulting the original manuscripts. The constitutional documents from Vermont to Wisconsin are published in volume VII. The book edition of Constitutions of the World from the late 18th Century to the middle of the 19th Century is the most complete and academically thorough collection of its kind. It contains constitutional documents from all over the world, written from 1776 to the end of the year 1849. This collection includes about 1,600 constitutions, amendments, human rights declarations, and draughts of constitutions that never came into force, from this period. These early constitutional documents were collected and examined in archives and libraries all over the world, as part of a project by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation). Using the original documents, experts from American and European universities reconstructed the authentic constitution texts for each country, and annotated them in their respective original languages. Each volume contains a short introduction, a main part with the edited constitution documents of a country, comments and an index. The unique value of the complete edition lies in its making all constitutions, from the early phase of modern constitutionalism, accessible in a reliable, authentic text version for the first time. These constitutions were widely scattered until now and, in many cases, unknown. In all, constitutional documents from about 50 countries in Europe and the Americas will be published in volumes for each country. Constitutions of the World from the late 18th Century to the Middle of the 19th Century is a unique and fundamental source edition and an extensive documentation of constitutional history. At the same time, it supplements the microfiche edition Constitutions of the World 1850 to the Present. The editor, Horst Dippel, is Professor of British and North American History at the University of Kassel, Germany. Frontmatter Contents Constitution of Vermont (1777) Constitution of Vermont (1786) Constitution of Vermont (1793) Failed Amendments of 1813 Failed Amendments of 1821 Amendments of 1827/1828 Amendments of 1835/1836 Failed Amendments of 1842 Amendments of 1849/1850 Failed Amendments of 1856 Declaration of Rights of Virginia (1776) Constitution of Virginia (1776) Constitution of Virginia (1830) / Verfassung von Virginia (1830) Constitution of Virginia (1851) Constitution of West Florida (1810) Failed Constitution of Wisconsin (1846) / Mislykket Konstitution for Wisconsin (1846) Constitution of Wisconsin (1848) / Verfassung von Wisconsin (1848) Konstitution for Wisconsin (1848) / Cyfansoddiad Wisconsin (1848) Failed Amendments of 1854 Backmatter Die siebenbändige Ausgabe enthält 446 nationale und alphabetisch nach Bundesstaaten sortierte originalsprachige Verfassungstexte, Verfassungszusätze, gescheiterte Verfassungen und Verfassungsentwürfe aus den Vereinigten Staaten. Die Texte wurden auf der Grundlage der mitunter seltenen Originaldrucke der offiziellen Staats- oder Konventsdrucker unter Hinzuziehung der Originalmanuskripte ediert und annotiert. In Band VII werden die Verfassungsdokumente von Vermont bis Wisconsin herausgegeben