Viewing Benjamin P. Shambaugh, "History of the Constitutions of Iowa" (1902).Benjamin P. Shambaugh, "History of the Constitutions of Iowa" (1902).In 1902, the Historical Department of Iowa published a study of the first three constitutional conventions of Iowa written by Benjamin P. Shambaugh, a political science professor at the University of Iowa. The first two constitutional conventions were held before Iowa became a state in 1857. The charter of 1857, according to Professor Shambaugh, "was simply a revision of the Constitution of 1846." |