Constitutional Law,
Government
Jun. 15, 2021
The long reach of the California Constitutional Convention
Some decisions of the 1849 California Constitutional Convention still have relevance
Donald E. Warner
Donald is a Los Angeles-based lawyer and adjunct professor at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, where his courses have included California Legal History.
In January 1847, the United States conquered the territory that was once the Mexican territory of Alta California. In the aftermath of the conquest, the U.S. Army provided a government for the captured territory. That government kept the peace, communicated with Washington, D.C., and did little else. In the meantime, James Marshall made his discovery in the Sierra foothills at Coloma, and the world, primarily Yankee gold-seekers, rushed in.
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