Description
On July 20, 1841 the Rhode Island Suffrage Association called upon the people of the state to elect delegates to a constitutional convention and for that convention to meet on the first Monday of October in order to frame a constitution. By mid-November, the constitution was finalized, and copies printed by the Suffrage Association’s official newspaper, the New Age, for distribution to the citizens of the state for their review. This constitution, known as the People’s Constitution, was ratified by the voters of the state in a multi-day plebiscite in late December 1841.
