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1. This week’s edition of #50Weeks50Constitutions heads to the home state of legendary newsman @tombrokaw and famed NFL kicker @adamvinatieri. That’s right, we are heading to South Dakota, the #MountRushmoreState!
2. South Dakota is one of the many states formed from the Louisiana Purchase, but it took a while. The Dakotas did not become a separate territory until 1861 and statehood wasn’t achieved until 1889, but SD was more active in pushing for statehood than ND. 
3. The real push began after the capital moved north to Bismarck, which led people "far away" in the South to hold a convention in Huron in 1883. This called for another, constitutional, convention later that year in Sioux Falls to draft a constitution and petition for statehood.
