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Box 1

 Container

Contains 1 Result:

"The Need of a Revision of the Constitution of the State of Tennessee", circa 1912

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: This political essay by R.H. Stevens calls for the revision of the constitution of the State of Tennessee. Stevens outlines a number of his concerns regarding the present governmental institutions of the time as well as proposing alternative solutions to his constitutional concerns. Stevens describes the county court as a “wholly undemocratic, inherently incompetent, and from its very nature defective in administrating local government.” Furthermore he cites the importance of granting the...
Dates: circa 1912