COURT OF APPEALS OF DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
SUPREME COURT OF COLORADO
Part V-State Constitutions and Sunday Laws.
STATE CONSTITUTIONS
Alabama, 523; Arkansas, 524; California, 525; Colorado,
526; Connecticut, 527; Delaware, 528; Florida, 529; Geor-
gia, 529; Idaho, 529; Illinois, 530; Indiana, 531; Iowa,
532; Kansas, 532; Kentucky, 532; Louisiana, 533; Maine,
534; Maryland, 534; Massachusetts, 535; Michigan, 536;
Minnesota, 536; Mississippi, 537; Missouri, 537; Montana,
538; Nebraska, 539; Nevada, 540; New Hampshire, 540;
New Jersey, 541; New Mexico, 541; New York, 543;
North Carolina, 543; North Dakota, 544; Ohio, 546; Okla-
homa, 547; Oregon, 547; Pennsylvania, 548; Philippines,
548; Rhode Island, 549; South Carolina, 549; South Da-
kota, 550; Tennessee, 550; Texas, 551; Vermont, 551;
Virginia, 552; Washington, 553; West Virginia, 554;
Wisconsin, 554; Wyoming, 555.
INCREASE OF SUNDAY LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES 556
SUNDAY LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES
Alabama, 557; Arizona, 559; Arkansas, 559; California,
561; Colorado, 562; Connecticut, 564; Delaware, 567; Dis-
trict of Columbia, 568; Florida, 570; Georgia, 571; Hawaii,
574; Idaho, 575; Illinois, 578; Indiana, 579; Iowa, 581;
Kansas, 581; Kentucky, 583; Louisiana, 585; Maine, 585;
Maryland, 587; Massachusetts, 589; Michigan, 593; Min-
nesota, 597; Mississippi, 598; Missouri, 599; Montana,
600; Nebraska, 600; Nevada, 601; New Hampshire, 602;
New Jersey, 603; New Mexico, 611; New York, 612;
North Carolina, 616; North Dakota, 618; Ohio, 619; Okla-
homa, 622; Oregon, 623; Pennsylvania, 624; Philippines,
627; Porto Rico, 627; Rhode Island, 629; South Carolina,
631; South Dakota, 633; Tennessee, 634; Texas, 636;
Utah, 638; Vermont, 638; Virginia, 639; Washington,
645; West Virginia, 646; Wisconsin, 647; Wyoming, 648.
LAWS NULLIFIED LARGELY BY EXCEPTIONS (note)
POLITICAL history is a most interesting study;
Political history an interesting study.
and of all the political history of the world, no other has been so full of interest, so pregnant with matter for thought, as that of America for the last two centuries. The irrepressible spirit of liberty in the early Americans and the philosophical ideas on government characteristic of the times, united to bring forth of American a government more grand, more in accordance with human rights, more in harmony with the principles of Christ, than any the world had ever seen.
Religiopolitical
revived.
There is, however, a reaction taking place. And the revival of the religio-political ideas of mediæval times, the practical operation of which, as declared by ideas being the United States Senate, "has been the desolating scourge of the fairest portions of the Old World," calls. for the republication of American State Papers which have marked the successive steps in our political American history.
The influence of Roger Williams,' of Washington, of Jefferson, of Madison, and of their fellow-states- istic Amer
1 From the publications of the Narragansett Historical Society, we take the following:
"Roger Williams, says Professor Gervinus, in his recent Intro- Roger duction to the History of the Nineteenth Century' (Translated from Williams. the German. H. G. Bohn, London, 1853, page 65), founded, in 1636, a small new society in Rhode Island, upon the principles of entire liberty of conscience, and the uncontrolled power of the majority ir
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