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Obvious misspellings have been corrected but quotations and contemporary spellings are unchanged.
The St. Peters river is mentioned as a proposed northern border for the new state of Iowa. It is now named the Minnesota river; it runs from western Minnesota (about 120 miles north of the final Iowa border at 43.5 degrees North) southeast to Mankato (about 45 miles north of the Iowa border), then to the Twin Cities (about 120 miles north of the Iowa border). Had the St. Peters been adopted about 15,000 square miles of what is now Minnesota would have been Iowa. Another proposal to extend the border to the 45th parallel would have put most of the Twin Cities in Iowa.
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HISTORY
OF THE
CONSTITUTIONS OF IOWA
BY
BENJAMIN F. SHAMBAUGH, PH. D.
PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL SCIENCE IN
THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
PUBLISHED BY
THE HISTORICAL DEPARTMENT OF IOWA
DES MOINES, IOWA
1902
TO HIS FRIEND
CHARLES ALDRICH
FOUNDER AND CURATOR OF
THE HISTORICAL DEPARTMENT OF IOWA
THIS VOLUME IS GRATEFULLY DEDICATED
BY THE AUTHOR