Browne had been a shorthand reporter for the U.S. Senate before coming west, and he provides transcripts of the proclamation calling the convention, proceedings of the convention, text of the state constitution adopted by the delegates, and ...

Original edition issued as no. 8 of "South Carolina, Maryland, and Virginia," which forms the 13th series of "Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science"

This new edition also contains a foreword by the current Chief Justice of California, Tani Cantil-Sakauye.