Studies in Civics. J. T. McCleary
offers are conditioned upon non-interference on the part of the state with the holding and selling by the United States of the lands within the state owned by the general government, and their exemption from taxation. The enabling act for Minnesota is given in the appendix, pp. 355–8. It is in a large measure typical. Students in most of the states can find the enabling act for their state in the legislative manual thereof.
Michigan, Kansas and Oregon formed their constitutions without an enabling act.
3. The constitutional convention provided for in the enabling act, having ascertained that it is the wish of the people to form a state, frames a constitution and submits it to the people of the proposed state for adoption.
4. If it is adopted, [Footnote: Wisconsin rejected the constitution of 1846, and New York that of 1867.] copies of the constitution are sent to the president and to each house of congress.
5. If the constitution framed is in accordance with our institutions, it is accepted and the state is admitted. [Footnote: The acts of congress of 1866 and 1867, admitting Colorado, were both vetoed by president Andrew Johnson.]
Kentucky, West Virginia, Maine, California and Texas became states in the
Union without having been territories. The first two were detached from
Virginia, and the third from Massachusetts, and admitted at once as
states. California and Texas had been independent states before admission.
As typical of the mode of restoring the southern states to their old place in the Union, the act restoring Tennessee is given on page 358.
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