Records of the Constitutional Convention of 1910 (ed. John S. Goff, 1991)

In 1991, the Arizona Supreme Court published a compilation of the Records of the Constitutional Convention of 1910, which historian John S. Goff assembled from the various documents kept by the Convention, as supplemented by some journalistic accounts. It has long been used as a key reference for those hoping to understand the process of creation and original intent behind the Arizona Constitution.

The School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership (SCETL) and the Center for American Civics has long been working on a successor to this document, digitized, re-indexed, searchable, and corrected, but both we and the Arizona Supreme Court wanted to provide the scan of the original Goff text as a useful resource to legacy citations and references to the Goff text. Unlike our new upcoming edition, this scan does not correct any errors in the original printing (for example, there are several pages out of sequence in Articles V and VI of the Arizona Constitution provided at the end of the volume).

This is a scan of the copy in the Arizona State University library. (Please note this copy had been annotated in the past by previous borrowers—these annotations are not the product of the Arizona Constitution Project, but we did not remove them due to concerns about preservation of the physical text).  This scan is provided by permission of the Supreme Court of Arizona. “© 1991 Arizona Supreme Court. All rights reserved.”

- Sean Beienburg, Project Director, Arizona Constitution Project, School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership