Focus (Forum & Focus)
Feb. 21, 2008
Constitutional Delegates Backed Into Tolerance
Forum Column - By Elaine Elinson - California’s 1849 Constitutional Convention delegates included several tolerant provisions in their founding document, but usually not for the right reasons.
By Elaine Elinson
This article appears on Page 6.
On one end of the long U-shaped wooden table inside Monterey's Colton Hall, a well-thumbed Spanish-English dictionary holds a place of prominence. This was the meeting room of the 48 delegates to California's first Constitutional Convention, where the proceedings were conducted in both English and Spanish. Before every vote, the resolution was translated into bo...
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