1817

On March 1, 1817, President James Madison signed legislation enabling inhabitants of the western portion of the Mississippi Territory to form for themselves a constitution and State government, and to assume such name as they shall deem proper; and the said State, when formed, shall be admitted into the Union upon the …

New constitution demanded A great land rush by American settlers into the northern two-thirds of Mississippi encouraged a huge population growth in the state. These new settlers demanded a new constitution that would bring Mississippi’s government closer to the people.

Solomon Saladin Calhoon

The State of Mississippi has had four state constitutions: the original Constitution of 1817, the Constitution of 1832, the Constitution of 1868, and the present-day Constitution of 1890.

What is the unwritten qualification in the 1817 Mississippi Constitution? The candidate had to be a white male.

1, 1890, Mississippi adopted a new constitution with a poll tax and arbitrary literacy tests for voting, sections designed to disenfranchise newly-franchised African Americans and some poor whites. The new constitution was a nail in the coffin for Mississippi Reconstruction and a win for voter suppression.

The current (and fourth) Mississippi Constitution was adopted on November 1, 1890. The current constitution has been amended at least 52 times since 1968.

As a result, the six articles of this statehood constitution contained rather standard features for its time, such as a functional division of power into separate legislative, executive, and judicial departments; a declaration of civil liberties; and nominal recognition of popular sovereignty.

No person shall be a senator unless he be a citizen of the United States, and shall have been an inhabitant of this State four years next preceding his election, and the last year thereof a resident of the district for which he shall be chosen, and shall have attained to the age of twenty-six years; and also, unless he …

July 1817: Mississippi holds first constitutional convention Assembled in Washington, Mississippi, 48 delegates wrote a conservative document concentrating power in the hands of the privileged few.

On December 10, 1817, Mississippi became the 20th state admitted to the Union….

The Mississippi Democratic Party is the affiliate of the Democratic Party in the state of Mississippi. The party headquarters is located in Jackson, Mississippi….

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Being the state with the highest rate of poverty in the country, lack of access to certain benefits, lack of grocery stores, high health care costs, institutional racism that has negative effects on the marginalized racial groups, and the lack of nutritional food, we cannot but see why Mississippi has more food …

Dates of Succession to the Union

In 1817, Mississippi became a state. By 1860 so much wealth was being produced in the state of Mississippi from cotton that Mississippi became the richest state in the entire country.

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