The Electorate of the federal enclave of Kansas approves the “Leavenworth Constitution” (YEA. 4,346; NAY, 1,257):
- Article I, Section 6 provides that “There shall be no slavery in this State, and no involuntary servitude, unless for the punishment of crime, whereof the parties shall have been duly convicted.”
- Article II, Section 1 extends the elective franchise to “every male [regardless of ethnic heritage] citizen of the United States, of the age of twenty-one years or upwards. …”
- Article XVI, Section 3 provides “for the protection of the rights of women, married and single, in the acquiring and possessing of property, real, personal, and mixed, separate and apart from the husband or other person. …”
Postscript: The proposed constitution was never considered in Congress.
[added 1/10/2025]
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Authority:
Article IV, Section 3 [Clause 1]
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References:
Benjamin Perley Poore, ed., The Federal and State constitutions, colonial charters, and other organic laws of the United States, 2 volumes, (New York: B. Franklin, 1878), 1:613.
Leavenworth Constitution – Wikipedia
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