Additional Resources

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

Adam R. Brown, Utah Politics and Government: American Democracy Among a Unique Electorate (2018)

Dale Morgan, The State of Deseret (1933)

Alan Kent Powell, Utah History Encyclopedia (1994)

Brent M. Rogers, Unpopular Sovereignty: Mormons and the Federal Management of Early Utah Territory (2016)

Jean Bickmore White, The Utah State Constitution (2011)

Articles

Thomas G. Alexander, Utah’s Constitution: A Reflection of the Territorial Experience, 64 Utah Hist. Q. 264 (1996)

Christine M. Durham, Employing the Utah Constitution in the Utah Courts, Utah B.J. 25 (Nov. 1989)

S. George Ellsworth, Utah’s Struggle for Statehood, 31 Utah Hist. Q. 60 (Winter 1963)

John J. Flynn, Federalism and Viable State Government – the History of Utah’s Constitution, 1966 Utah L. Rev. 311 (1966)

Daniel J.H. Greenwood, Christine M. Durham, & Kathy Wyer, Utah’s Constitution: Distinctively Undistinctive, The Constitutionalism of American States 649 (2008)

Kent R. Hart, Court Rulemaking in Utah Following the 1985 Revision of the Utah Constitution, 1992 Utah L. Rev. 153 (1992)

Stanley S. Ivins, A Constitution for Utah, 25 Utah Hist. Q. 95 (1957)

Miriam B. Murphy, Utah’s Unique Declaration of Rights, 20 Beehive History 13 (1994)

Samuel P. Newton, Giving Teeth to State Constitutions: Using History to Argue Utah’s Constitution Affords Greater Protections to Criminal Defendants, 3 Utah J. Crim. L. 40 (2018)

Paul Wake, Fundamental Principles, Individual Rights, and Free Government: Do Utahns Remember How to Be Free?, 1996 Utah L. Rev. 661 (1996)

Convention Records

Constitutional Convention Records (1895)

Constitutional Convention Dockets (1895)

Official Report of the Proceedings and Debates of the Convention (1895), Vol. 1

Official Report of the Proceedings and Debates of the Convention (1895), Vol. 2

Legislative Publications

Utah State Government – A Citizen’s Guide

Additional Databases

Voter Information Pamphlets Archive

Utah State Courts, Research Guide: Utah Legal History Articles & Books