Additional Records & Resources

This page contains a curated list of resources on the history of the Arizona 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.

Convention Records

Complete Verbatim Report, Arizona Constitutional Convention

Journals of the Constitutional Convention for the State of Arizona

Minutes of the Constitutional Convention of the Territory of Arizona

The Records of the Arizona Constitutional Convention of 1910

Lauren Davis, Aaron Kushner, Harriet Carter, Elizabeth Green, Annabel Harris, Grace Penn, Nicholas Jacobs, Arizona Constitutional Convention (1910) (2023)

Books

John D. Leshy, The Arizona Constitution (2013)

John P. White, Russell B. Roush, & Bruce Bonner Mason, A Guide to the Arizona Constitution (1985)

Toni McClory, Understanding the Arizona Constitution (2001)

Articles

Arizona State Law Journal, The Centennial of Arizona’s Constitution (Special Issue 2012)

Hon. George T. Anagnost, The Arizona Constitution: Sources, Structure & Interpretative Cases, 45 Ariz. Att’y 14 (2009)

Gordon Bakken, The Arizona Constitutional Convention of 1910, 1978 Ariz. St. L.J. 1 (1978)

Paul Bender, The Arizona Supreme Court & the Arizona Constitution: The First Hundred Years, 48 Ariz. Att’y 40 (2012)

Hon. Clint Bolick, The Unused Toolbox: Forging a Dynamic Future for Arizona’s Constitution, 55 Ariz. Att’y 40 (2018)

Stanley G. Feldman & David L. Abney, The Double Security of Federalism: Protecting Individual Liberty Under the Arizona Constitution, 20 Ariz. St. L.J. 115 (1988) 

Lisa T. Hauser, Powers of Initiative and Referendum: Keeping the Arizona Constitution's Promise of Direct Democracy, 44 Ariz. St. L.J. (2012)

Andrew D. Hurwitz, The Arizona Constitution and the Right to Vote, 53 Ariz. L.J. 821 (2021)

Lauren Keating, The Perspective of a Reasonable Voter Will No Longer Be Considered in Determining Whether a Proposed Constitutional Amendment Satisfies the Arizona Constitution's Separate Amendment Requirement - Arizona Together v. Brewer, 39 Rutgers L.J. 989 (2008)

John D. Leshy, The Making of the Arizona Constitution, 20 Ariz. St. L.J. 1 (1988)

Mark E. Pry, Statehood Politics and Territorial Developments: The Arizona Constitution of 1891, 35 J. Ariz. Hist. 397 (1994)

Government Publications

Arizona Initiative and Referendum Publicity Pamphlets

Documents Leading to Statehood

Additional Databases

Arizona Constitution Project

Arizona Constitutional History Guide