"[P]rovides an in-depth, section-by-section analysis of the entire constitution, detailing the many significant changes made since its initial drafting." Contains a table of cases, index, and bibliography.
Call Number: Reference Area & Reference Office (KFW401 1889.A6 U888 2013) Publication Date: 2013"[P]rovides an in-depth, section-by-section analysis of the entire constitution, detailing the many significant changes made since its initial drafting." Contains a table of cases, index, and bibliography.
Hugh D. Spitzer, Washington: The Past and Present Populist State, in The Constitutionalism of American States 771 (George E. Connor and Christopher W. Hammons eds., 2008)
Arthur S. Beardsley, Sources of the Washington Constitution, in State of Washington, 2011-2012 Legislative Manual at 385-422. Beardsley first prepared this study comparing provisions of the Washington State constitution with parallels in the federal constitution, other state constitutions, and the Hill and 1878 draft constitutions in 1939. It is reprinted every two years in the Legislative Manual. The link above is to the Legislative Manual on the legislature's website.
Herman J. Deutsch, A Prospectus for the Study of the Governments of the Pacific Northwest States in Their Regional Setting, 42 Pac. Nw. Q. 277 (1951), JSTOR (UW restricted)
Drafting Washington's State Constitution, 48 Pac. Nw. Q. 22-24 (1957), JSTOR (UW restricted). Reprints two undated letters concerning the activities of the constitutional convention. The letters, signed "Flynn," originally appeared in the Walla Walla Statesman.
James L. Fitts, The Washington Constitutional Convention of 1889 (1951) (unpublished Master's thesis, University of Washington, Seattle)
John D. Hicks, The Constitutions of the Northwest States. Constitutional Convention Research Memorandum No. 6, Montana Constitutional Convention Comm'n. (1971-72). Reprinted from University of Nebraska University Studies, vol. XXIII, Nos. 1-2 (Jan.-April, 1923).
Claudius O. Johnson, George Turner, a Character from Plutarch, 18 Wash. L. Rev. 167-81 (1943) and 19 Wash. L. Rev. 18-30 (1944)
John R. Kinnear, Notes on the Constitutional Convention, 4 Wash. Hist. Q. 276 (1913). Kinnear, a lawyer from Seattle, was a delegate to the convention. See biographical sketch.
Image: photo of Jonathan Ritchey Kinnear from University of Washington Libraries Grand Army of the Republic Civil War Photos collection. Record includes obituary ( Seattle Post-Intelligencer, April 1, 1912, at 2)
Charles H. Sheldon, Judicial Review and the Supreme Court of Washington, 1890-1986, Publius, J. Federalism, Wtr. 1987, at 69. JSTOR
Theodore L. Stiles
(from Constitutional convention composite photo)
Francis Newton Thorpe, Recent Constitution-Making in the United States: North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Washington, 2 Annals Am. Acad. of Pol. & Soc. Sci. 145-201 (1891), HeinOnline
