Additional Resources

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

James Duff Barnett, The Operation of the Initiative, Referendum and Recall in Oregon (1915)

Bradley J. Nicholson, A Sense of the Oregon Constitution (2015)

Oregon State Bar, Oregon Constitutional Law (2022)

Articles

Paula Abrams, The Majority Will: A Case Study of Misinformation, Manipulation, and the Oregon Initiative Process, 87 Or. L. Rev. 1025 (2008)

Claudia Burton & Andrew Grade, A Legislative History of the Oregon Constitution of 1857, Part I, 37 Willamette L. Rev. 469 (2001)

Claudia Burton, A Legislative History of the Oregon Constitution of 1857, Part II, 39 Willamette L. Rev. 245 (2003)

Claudia Burton, A Legislative History of the Oregon Constitution of 1857, Part III, 40 Willamette L. Rev. 225 (2004)

Susan M. Johnson, Measure for Measure: Amendment and Revision of the Oregon Constitution, 74 Or. L. Rev. 1065 (1995)

Hon. Jack L. Landau, History and Interpreting the Oregon Constitution: A Guide for the Perplexed, Oregon Constitutional Newsletter (2005)

Hon. Jack L. Landau, Of Lessons Learned and Lessons Nearly Lost: The Linde Legacy and Oregon Constitutional Law, 43 Willamette L. Rev. 251 (2007)

W.C. Palmer, The Sources of the. Oregon Constitution, 5 Or. L. Rev. 200 (1926)

David Schuman, The Creation of the Oregon Constitution, 74 Or. L. Rev. 611 (1995)

Convention Records

Journal of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Oregon (1882)

The Oregon Constitution and Proceedings and Debates of the Constitutional Convention of 1857 (1926)

Legislative & Other Government Publications

The Oregon Blue Book 

The Laws of Oregon

Voter’s Pamphlets (1904-)

Additional Databases

Oregon History Project

University of Washington School of Law, Oregon State Constitution Research