Portal:Minnesota/June in the history of Minnesota

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An election in Minnesota Territory to select Republican and Democratic delegates to a state constitutional convention was held on June 1, 1857. The divisions between the parties were so great that they each held their own separate conventions and never met together aside from five people from each party who met in a conference committee to create a document acceptable to both sides. Still, the tension was so extreme that delegates would not sign anything that had previously been signed by a member of the complementary convention. In the end, each convention signed their own copies of the document. The two were essentially identical, but had about 300 differences in punctuation, grammar, and wording because of errors in transcription produced as copyists worked late into the night. (Full article)