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North Dakota Constitution

Primary References

Thomas M. Cooley, Treatise on Constitutional Limitations (5th ed. 1883) [Note:Cooley remarks to convention]
Bouvier, A Law Dictionary (1883) vol 1, vol 2
Burrill, A Law Dictionary (1867) vol 1, vol 2
Webster's International Dictionary of the English Language (unabridged 1898)
Webster's Complete Dictionary of the English Language (unabridged 1886)
Black's Law Dictionary (1891)
Criminal Law and Procedure Treatises
- Joel Prentiss Bishop, Commentaries on the Law of Criminal Procedure (2d ed. 1872) (vol 1) (vol 2)
- Joel Prentiss Bishop, Prosecution and Defense, Practical Directions and Forms (1885)
- Samuel Maxwell, A Practical Treatise on Criminal Procedure (1887)
- Francis Wharton, A Treatise on Criminal Pleading and Practice (9th ed. 1889)
- Francis Wharton, A Treatise on Criminal Law (8th ed. 1880) (vol 1) (vol 2)
- Francis Wharton, A Treatise on Criminal Law (9th ed. 1885) (vol 2)
- Francis Wharton, A Treatise on Criminal Law (10th ed. 1896) (vol 1) (vol 2)

State Archives Newspaper archives
The Library of Congress archive includes archived newspaper coverage of the debates and adoption of the Constitution and later amendments.
Advantage Archives of historical newspapers
selected North Dakota newspapers published during the Constitutional Convention

Jerod Tufte, The North Dakota Constitution: An Original Approach Since 1889, 95 N.D. L. Rev. 417.
James Leahy, The North Dakota State Constitution (2011)
An Introduction to North Dakota Constitutional Law: Content and Methods of Interpretation, 63 N.D. L. Rev. 157 (1987).
Summary of significant decisions rendered by North Dakota Supreme Court in 1988 relating to state constitutional law, 64 N.D. L. Rev. 226 (1988).
Sources of the 1889 North Dakota Constitution, 65 N.D. L. Rev. 331 (1989).
Digging for Roots: The North Dakota Constitution and the Thayer Correspondence, 65 N.D. L. Rev. 343 (1989).
The Thayer Correspondence Introductory Note, 65 N.D. L. Rev. 383 (1989).
Model Constitution (Peddrick Draft #2, 1889) Introductory Note, 65 N.D. L. Rev. 415 (1989).
The Constitution Is What the Judges Say It Is, 65 N.D. L. Rev. 491 (1989).
Vance K. Hill, The North Dakota Constitution: The Executive Branch, 48 N.D. L. Rev. 291
Elwyn B. Robinson, History of North Dakota (2017).
Ryland Melville Black, History of the State Constitutional Convention of 1889 (1910).

Jeffrey S. Sutton, 51 Imperfect Solutions (2018)
William J. Jr. Brennan, State Constitutions and the Protection of Individual Rights, 90 Harv. L. Rev. 489, 504 (1977)
Carpenter, Leonore and Margolis, Ellie, One Sequin at a Time: Lessons on State Constitutions and Incremental Change from the Campaign for Marriage Equality. 75 N.Y.U. Ann. Surv. Am. L. 255 (2020). Available at SSRN
Justin Long, Intermittent State Constitutionalism
Kahn, Interpretation and Authority in State Constitutionalism
Christiansen, Originalism: The Primary Canon of State Constitutional Interpretation, 15 Geo. J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 341 (2017)
Spitzer, New Life for the Criteria Tests in State Constitutional Jurisprudence