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1. This week’s edition of #50Weeks50Constitutions travels to one of the least visited states in the country: North Dakota. The #PeaceGardenState, & home of Roger Maris, still operates under its 1889 Constitution, though it has been amended frequently over the intervening decades. 
2. The U.S. gained control over the land that would eventually become ND through the Louisiana Purchase, but it took a while for the push for statehood to really get going. Though Lewis and Clark wintered there during the westward portion of their journey.
3. It was not until March 1861 that the federal government officially created the Dakota territory and set up the basic form of American government there. Lincoln appointed the first governor, but the legislature and many local officials were popularly elected.
