The government of the people of the state of Indiana . Post established at Post established at The Treaty of Paris. 1779. Vincennes surrendered to Col. George R. Clark1787. Ordinance of 1787. 1800. Indiana Territory organized with the capital at Slavery by indenture permitted. 1804. The Western Sun, the first newspaper in the Territory,established at Vincennes. 1804. Indiana Territory passed to the second stage. 1805. Michigan Territory separated from Indiana Territory. 1806. Vincennes University founded. 1809. Illinois Territory se


The government of the people of the state of Indiana . Post established at Post established at The Treaty of Paris. 1779. Vincennes surrendered to Col. George R. Clark1787. Ordinance of 1787. 1800. Indiana Territory organized with the capital at Slavery by indenture permitted. 1804. The Western Sun, the first newspaper in the Territory,established at Vincennes. 1804. Indiana Territory passed to the second stage. 1805. Michigan Territory separated from Indiana Territory. 1806. Vincennes University founded. 1809. Illinois Territory separated from Indiana Territory. 1811. Battle of Tippecanoe. 1813. Removal of Capital from Vincennes to Corydon. 1816. First State Constitution framed and adopted. Indiana admitted to the Union. 1820. Bloomington Seminary (Indiana University) founded. 1825. Removal of Capital from Corydon to Indianapolis. 1834. Indiana State Bank chartered. 1835. The Wabash and Erie Canal New State Constitution Australian Ballot Law Benjamin Harrison. CHAPTER II. THE STATE GOVERNMENT. —o>Ko I. Introduction. 38. The Preamble to the State Constitution is the en-acting clause which declares for what purpose the sove-reign people have ordained the Constitution. 39. The Bill of Rights1 is the first article of the Con-stitution. It contains a statement of the fundamentalprinciples which underlie the system of government anda declaration of the civil and political rights which areinviolably reserved to the people. Most of these are found 1 See the Constitution. Each section of the bill of rights should becarefully studied by the class. Frequent reference to the Constitutionshould be insisted INTR OD UCTION. 39 also in the Constitution of the United States. They werewrung from unwilling kings by our own English ancestorsduring a contest which lasted more than five hundredyears. 40. Citizenship.—Citizens are the members of thepolitical community to whic


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