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History

Government Sources

Constitutional Convention Proceedings

1779: A Declaration of rights, and plan of government for the state of New-Hampshire. (Exeter [N.H.]; : Printed by Zechariah Fowle, 1779.

1792: The Constitution Of New Hampshire: As Altered And Amended By A Convention Of Delegates, Held At Concord, In Said State, Approved By The People.

1877: Journal of the Constitutional Convention of the State of New Hampshire 1876-1877.

1889: Journal of the Constitutional Convention of the State of New Hampshire, 1889.

1902: Convention to Revise the Constitution, 1902, and Manual of the constitution of the state of New Hampshire, 1902, and The constitution of New Hampshire as amended in 1903 with historical and explanatory notes, 1904.

1912: Convention to Revise the Constitution, 1912, and Manual of the constitution of the state of New Hampshire, 1912.

1918: Convention to Revise the Constitution, and Manual of the Constitutional Convention of 1918.

1923: Convention to Revise the Constitution, 1923.

1930: Convention to Revise the Constitution, 1930.

1938: Convention to Revise the Constitution, 1938.

1941: State of New Hampshire Convention to Revise the Constitution, 1941.

1948: Convention to revise the constitution, May, 1948.

1964: Convention to Revise the Constitution, 1964, and Report to the Fifteenth Constitutional Convention, and A modern constitution for New Hampshire : a summary of the report of the Commission to Study the State Constitution.

1972: Report to the sixteenth Constitutional Convention.

Manuals

Note: New Hampshire’s manuals for delegates to prepare for constitutional conventions are among the most useful resources on New Hampshire’s constitutional convention history. Some of its official constitutional convention journals also include historical information about earlier conventions.

• Jeffries, Beatrice Ruth, ed. New Hampshire Constitutional Conventions. New Hampshire State Library, Legislative Service, 1956.
• Manual Of The Constitutional Convention Of 1918: Convened At The State House At Concord, June 5, 1918.
• Manual of the Constitution of the State of New Hampshire, January 24, 2012.
• Manual of the constitution of the state of New Hampshire: Compiled from official sources, January 1, 1902

Voters’ Guide

1968: Voters’ guide to proposed amendments to constitution of the state of New Hampshire, to appear on a special ballot at election on November 5, 1968. Questions one through six recommended by the 15th Constitutional Convention at its sessions of May 13 – June 10, and July 8, 1964; and questions seven through ten recommended by the 1967 session of the General court.

Court Cases

Levitt v. Attorney General (1962) 104 N.H. 100.

Scholars

Brown, Albert O. “Constitutional Revision in New Hampshire.” In Proceedings of the Annual Conference on Taxation under the Auspices of the National Tax Association, vol. 14, pp. 165-172. National Tax Association, 1921.

Dodd, Walter F. “The first state constitutional conventions, 1776-1783.” American Political Science Review 2, no. 4 (1908): 545-561.

Friedman, Lawrence. The New Hampshire State Constitution. Oxford Commentaries on the Sta, 2015.

Marshall, Susan E. The New Hampshire state constitution: A reference guide. Vol. 39. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2004.

Updyke, Frank A. “New Hampshire Constitutional Convention.” American Political Science Review 7, no. 1 (1913): 133-137.

Van Loan III, Eugene, M., “Amending the Constitution by Convention,” 42 New Hampshire Bar Journal, June 1, 2001.

White, Leonard D. “The New Hampshire Constitutional Convention.” Michigan Law Review 19, no. 4 (1921): 383-394.