# History of the Constitutions of Iowa

Author: Shambaugh, Benjamin Franklin, 1871-1940

Genre: Category: History - American

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31335

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=History+of+the+Constitutions+of+Iowa+Shambaugh&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

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. [End Transcriber's note]

## Chapters

- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/history-of-the-constitutions-of-iowa-31335/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/history-of-the-constitutions-of-iowa-31335/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/history-of-the-constitutions-of-iowa-31335/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/history-of-the-constitutions-of-iowa-31335/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/history-of-the-constitutions-of-iowa-31335/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/history-of-the-constitutions-of-iowa-31335/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/history-of-the-constitutions-of-iowa-31335/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/history-of-the-constitutions-of-iowa-31335/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/history-of-the-constitutions-of-iowa-31335/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/history-of-the-constitutions-of-iowa-31335/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/history-of-the-constitutions-of-iowa-31335/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/history-of-the-constitutions-of-iowa-31335/chapters/12/index.md)