This page contains a curated list of resources on the history of the Alaska Constitution. To the extent possible, links are to publicly accessible copies of the sources listed. Where that is not possible, the link directs to an online database.
Books
Gerald A. McBeath, The Alaska State Constitution
Gerald A. McBeath, The Alaska State Constitution: A Reference Guide
Victor Fischer, Alaska’s Constitutional Convention
Articles
Alaska Bar, Sources of Alaska Legal History: An Annotated Bibliography, Part I, 110 Law Libr. J. 333 (2018)
Alaska Bar, Sources of Alaska Legal History: An Annotated Bibliography, Part I, 110 Law Libr. J. 477 (2018)
Paul C. Bartholomew, The Constitution of the State of Alaska, 40 S.W. Soc. Sci. Q. 40 (1959)
Erwin Chemerinsky, The Alaska Constitution and the Future of Individual Rights, 35 Alaska L. Rev. 117 (2018)
William L. Iggiagruk Hensley & John Sky Starkey, Alaska Native Perspectives on the Alaska Constitution, 35 Alaska L. Rev. 129 (2018)
Thomas Metzloff, Preparing the Way: Tom Stewart's Recollections on the Alaska State Constitutional Convention, 35 Alaska Law Review 289 (2018) (arranging Thomas B. Stewart, Recollections on the Writing of the Alaska State Constitution (1992) (unpublished manuscript) (on file with the Alaska Law Review))
Michael Schwaiger, Understanding the Unoriginal: Indeterminant Originalism and Independent Interpretation of the Alaska Constitution
Thomas V. Van Flein, The Baker Doctrine and the New Federalism: Developing Independent Constitutional Principles Under the Alaska Constitution, 21 Ala. L. Rev. 227 (2004)
Robert F. Williams, Alaska, the Last Statehood Constitution, and Subnational Rights and Governance, 35 Alaska L. Rev. 139 (2018)
Convention Records
Alaska Constitutional Convention Audio Recordings
Alaska Constitutional Convention: Minutes of the Daily Proceedings
Constitutional Studies, Prepared on Behalf of the Alaska Statehood Committee for the Alaska Constitutional Convention
Handbook for Delegates to the Alaska Constitutional Convention
Constitutional Convention Proceedings
Constitutional Convention Files
Proposed Constitution for the State of Alaska: A Report to the People of Alaska from the Alaska Constitutional Convention
Legislative Publications
Guide to Constitutional Convention Research
100 Years of Alaska’s Legislature
Gordon Harrison, Alaska’s Constitution: A Citizen’s Guide
Additional Databases
Alaska Constitutional Convention and Statehood Archival Collection
The Alaska State Constitutional Convention Clearinghouse
