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This text is derived from a raw txt file in the Internet Archive. Obvious misspellings have been corrected but quotations and contemporary spellings are unchanged. The St. Peters river is mentioned as a proposed northern border for the new state of Iowa. It is now named the Minnesota river; it runs from western Minnesota (about 120 miles north of the final Iowa border at 43.5 degrees North) southeast to Mankato (about 45 miles north of the Iowa border), then to the Twin Cities (about 120 miles north of the Iowa border). Had the St. Peters been adopted about 15,000 square miles of what is now Minnesota would have been Iowa. Another proposal to extend the border to the 45th parallel would have put most of the Twin Cities in Iowa.
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HISTORY OF THE CONSTITUTIONS OF IOWA BY BENJAMIN F. SHAMBAUGH, PH. D. PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL SCIENCE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA PUBLISHED BY THE HISTORICAL DEPARTMENT OF IOWA DES MOINES, IOWA 1902 TO HIS FRIEND CHARLES ALDRICH FOUNDER AND CURATOR OF THE HISTORICAL DEPARTMENT OF IOWA THIS VOLUME IS GRATEFULLY DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR