. North Dakota history and people; outlines of American history. ofessor Thayer to draft a constitution for the new states, they would havethe benefit of all that expert knowledge and sound judgment could accomplish inthat respect. Professor Thayer undertook the task. His draft-constitution wassubmitted to the two conventions, and was in large part adopted by them. Thelegislative article in the Constitution of North Dakota, for example, is substan-tially word for word the language of Professor Thayers draft. It rarely happens to a teacher or to a lawyer to accomplish a piece of con-structive w
. North Dakota history and people; outlines of American history. ofessor Thayer to draft a constitution for the new states, they would havethe benefit of all that expert knowledge and sound judgment could accomplish inthat respect. Professor Thayer undertook the task. His draft-constitution wassubmitted to the two conventions, and was in large part adopted by them. Thelegislative article in the Constitution of North Dakota, for example, is substan-tially word for word the language of Professor Thayers draft. It rarely happens to a teacher or to a lawyer to accomplish a piece of con-structive work of this kind, a piece of work aftecting so widely the interests ofso large a community, aftecting them not merely for the present but for the future. You may think it singular that the authorship of a work of this importanceshould wait vmtil this time for public disclosure. The fact is. that it seemed pru-dent when the work was doing to conceal its authorship. Though Mr. \illardwas moved only by a single-hearted desire to promote the welfare of the two new. 7^1 i a n. ^ 1 ll^^iBs B !■ BH na rv -n 11 K s s I B r- [ GIRLS DORMITORY j 11 HISTORY OF NORTH DAKOTA 395 states, it was feared that a draft-constitution prepared by an eastern college pro-fessor, under the direction of a Wall Street lawyer and at the instance of the headof the largest corporation in the territory, might fail of adoption if its authorshipwere known; that the people whom it was designed to benefit might entertain asuspicion that a constitution so prepared, however fair upon its face, concealedsome sinister attack upon their property rights. The two constitutions have nowbeen in force some fifteen years. Their merits have been proved in that two amendments have been made to the North Dakota Constitution, and oneof these incorporates a clause from Professor Thayers draft omitted by the Con-stitutional Convention. The principal actors in this scheme to help the people ofthe Dakotas are now all de
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