Additional Resources

This page contains a curated list of resources on the history of the Minnesota 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

William Anderson & Albert J. Lobb, A History of the Constitution of Minnesota (1921)

Mary Jane Morrison, The Minnesota State Constitution: A Reference Guide (2002)

Articles

William Anderson, The Constitution of Minnesota, 5 MINN. L. REV. 407 (1921)

William Anderson, The Need for Constitutional Revision in Minnesota, 11 MINN. L. REV. 189 (1927)

Rita Coyle DeMeules, Minnesota's Variable Approach to State Constitutional Claims, 17 WM. MITCHELL L. REV. 163 (1991)

Essays on the Minnesota Constitution, 20 WM. MITCHELL L. REV. 227 (1994)

Betty Kane, Amending Our State Constitution: Continuity Through Ordered Change, Minnesota Legislative Manual (1981)

Douglas A. Hedin, The Quicksands of Originalism: Interpreting Minnesota’s Constitutional Past 30 WM. MITCHELL L. REV. 241 (2003)

Fred L. Morrison, An Introduction to the Minnesota Constitution, 20 WM. MITCHELL L. REV. 3 (1994)

Convention Records

Debates and Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention for the Territory of Minnesota (1858)

Journal of the Constitutional Convention of the Territory of Minnesota (1857)

1973 Minnesota Constitutional Study Commission, Final Report

Legislative Publications

The Laws of Minnesota

The Minnesota Blue Book

State Constitutional Amendments Considered

Matt Gehring, Minnesota Constitutional Amendments: History and Legal Principles, Minnesota House of Representatives Research Department (2013)

Additional Databases

The Minnesota Legal History Project