Topic summary
Maine Constitution
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Constitution of Maine.
History
The Maine Constitution was approved by Congress on March 4, 1820, as part of the Missouri Compromise since the Maine Constitution did not recognize slavery while the Missouri Constitution did. The State of Maine was previously the District of Maine in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. William King may have authored the largest part of the Maine Constitution, as he was the president of the Constitutional Convention and later elected Maine's first Governor.