Introduction
This guide begins with basic resources for researching the Washington State Constitution.
It goes on to present resources for studying the history and interpretation of the Washington State constitution. It includes links to documents hosted on the law library's website that are not available elsewhere, as well as links to other sites.
Graphic: Map of Washington Territory, Rand McNally & Co, 1888, from Washington Archives, AR270B-A32.
Introduction to the Constitution
- The Washington State Constitutiion (TVW)TVW teaching module. Includes discussion questions. Video includes commentary by UW Law professor Hugh Spitzer
Files in Digital Commons
The PDF files of articles and books linked in this guide lead to the Washington State Constitution History collection in the UW Law Digital Commons institutional repository.
The print in the digitized newspapers is very small. Zooming in makes it possible to read the text but the images are still not crisp, because of the age and quality of the originals.