This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ... itself provided that it should be submitted to the people at the April election together with any conditions which might be made by Congress.304 The enabling act of Congress, approved March 3, 1845, made it an essential condition of the admission of Iowa into the Union that so much of the act as applied to Iowa be ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ... itself provided that it should be submitted to the people at the April election together with any conditions which might be made by Congress.304 The enabling act of Congress, approved March 3, 1845, made it an essential condition of the admission of Iowa into the Union that so much of the act as applied to Iowa be assented to "by a majority of the qualified electors at their township elections, in the manner and at the time prescribed" in the Constitution itself.305 Only upon the understanding that these provisions contemplated separate ballots on Constitution and conditions could the people ratify the Constitution as drawn up and reject the Congressional conditions containing the obnoxious boundaries. But no separate ballot was provided, and a vast majority undoubtedly understood that the two questions were combined in a single vote. With either understanding as to how much was included in the vote, a new enabling act was necessitated by the result. For, if the vote only applied to the Constitution it was now too late to accept the Congressional conditions since the act declared it a "fundamental condition of the admission of said State" that they take such vote "at the time" prescribed for voting on the Constitution. If, on the other hand, the vote in April did include the Congressional conditions, it meant their rejection, and Congress must make a new enactment for their admission. In view of this condition, Chambers felt that the thing to do was to allow the people to vote on the calling of a new convention. But the Democratic legislature, making the most of the argument that the conditions in April had prevented a fair judgment on the Constitution, preferred to resubmit the original instrument to the vote of the people an...
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