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6 Mem. St. U. L. Rev. 563 (1975-1976)
A Legal and Constitutional History of Tennessee, 1772-1972

handle is hein.journals/umem6 and id is 573 raw text is: A Legal and Constitutional History of Tennessee, 1772-1972 LEWIS L. LASKA * I. INTRODUCTION .................................... 564 II. THE WATAUGA ASSOCIATION, 1769-1777 ............. 566 III. NORTH CAROLINA JURISDICTION, 1777-1784 .......... 571 IV. THE CUMBERLAND COMPACT, 1780-1783 ............. 573 V. THE LOST STATE OF FRANKLIN, 1784-1788 ........... 575 VI. NORTH CAROLINA JURISDICTION, 1788-1790 .......... 578 VII. TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENT, 1790-1796 .............. 579 VIII. THE CONSTITUTION OF 1796 ....................... 582 A. Declaration of Rights ....................... 592 IX . STATEHOOD, 1796 ................................ 596 X. THE CONSTITUTION OF 1834 ....................... 599 XI. AMENDMENTS AND SECESSION, 1853-1862 ............ 615 A. Amendments of 1853 ........................ 615 B. Secession, 1861-62 .......................... 617 XII. MiuARY GOVERNMENT AND RECONSTRUCTION, 1862-1869 ...................................... 621 A. Military Government, 1862-65 ............... 621 B. Amendments of 1865 ........................ 622 C. Reconstruction, 1865-1869 ................... 625 1. Readmission, 1865-1866 .................. 625 2. The Franchise, 1865-1869 ................ 628 D. The Coming of a New Constitution, 1869 ..... 631 XIII. THE CONSTITUTION OF 1870 ....................... 633 A. Taxation and the 1870 Convention ........... 646 B. Amendments of 1953 ........................ 653 C. Amendments of 1959 ........................ 663 D. Amendments of 1965 ........................ 664 E. Amendments of 1972 ........................ 667 X IV . CONCLUSION .................................... 671 * Assistant Professor, University of Tennesse, Nashville; Member, Tennessee Bar; B.S., Belmont College; M.B.A., University of Tennessee; J.D., Vanderbilt University. The author wishes to acknowledge the assistance provided by Theodore Brown in the prepara- tion of thiR article.