Research Guides: Microform Research Sets: State Constitutional Conventions, parts I and II, 1776-1976 (Arkansas)

About this Collection

State Constitutional Conventions, Parts I and II, 1776-1975, Arkansas

About: Draws together documents related to the firstfive ratified constitutions of Arkansas, as well as attempts at new constitutions through 1970.
Location: Library Annex Cabinets K5125 .S75
Format: microfiche
Arrangement: By document number, chronologically. Obtain the document number from the printed set bibliographies.
Items: 62 fiche
Publication: Rockville, Md. : Micropublishing Department, Congressional Information Service, inc, 1973-. Also issued by Greenwood Press.

Indexes and Guides

Use the printed bibliographies to locate the fiche numbers to request from the Library Annex.

State Constitutional Conventions from Independence to the Completion of the Present Union, 1776-1959 by Browne, Cynthia
Call Number: Gov Ref KF 4501 B76

ISBN: 0837170052

Publication Date: 1973
State Constitutional Conventions from Independence to the Completion of the Present Union, 1776-1959 by Browne, Cynthia
Call Number: Gov Ref KF 4501 B76

ISBN: 0837170052

Publication Date: 1973

State Constitutional Conventions, scan of Arkansas pages
A scan of the Arkansas pages from the 1973 and 1976 guides.

Other Information

The Libraries have significant manuscript collections relating to attempts at new constitutions in 1969-70 and 1979-1980. Consult with Special Collections on these sources.

Arkansas Consitutions (Encyckopedia of Arkansas
Arkansas Constitutions (Arkansas Digital Archives, State Archives)
Digital facsimiles of the five ratified constitutions.

Online Options

Many of these documents are in the public domain and can be found in HathiTrust, Google Books, or the Internet Archive.

HathiTrust
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Google Books
A growing collection of records for both recent and long out-of-print titles. Because a search may retrieve results from the full-text of many books, Google Books is most useful in helping you to identify titles of interest in your research. A number of popular magazines and government documents have also been added to the Google Books service.