Maine Interlinear Constitution

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Parallel Original CONSTITUTION OF MAINE and Statutory CONSTITUTION of the STATE OF MAINE
Compilation and annotation ©2004, David R. Deschesne. All Rights Reserved. This work may
be reproduced electronically or in print in its entirety with full attribution to the author.

INTRODUCTION
A Constitution is a document which establishes the foundation for a governmental system to exist. It states its rules, by-laws, procedures and enumerates the rights the Citizenry have. A Constitution is open to amendment only under very strict guidelines. It may not be legally "revised" by any one person, group of people, or branch of government in any way other than that which it sets out in its amendment procedures.

In 1819, a committee of 33 delegates from the various Counties in Maine, headed by William King of Bath, assembled in order to draft a Constitution for the newly formed State of Maine (Columbia was considered as an alternate name for the new state in respect to Christopher Columbus). After the War Between the States (a.k.a. "Civil War") the CONSTITUTION OF MAINE underwent a change - strangely enough right in the middle of the Reconstruction Era.

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