Letter from Governor William G. Brownlow on Governor's Office letterhead. Letter is dated September 25, 1867 and has been laminated. This letter orders the state militia to enforce the franchise.
State government; Constitutions; Constitutional conventions; Law & legal affairs; Slavery; Freedmen; Suffrage; Lotteries
This first revision of the Tennessee Constitution addressed a variety of problems present in the original 1796 Constitution. Pages are handwritten on oversize paper and are laminated.