Florida's Early Constitutions

Jon Grandage, archives historian for the State Library and Archives of Florida, talked about Florida’s early constitutions. Starting with the earliest Constitution of 1812, known as the Patriot Constitution, which transferred control of the Florida territory to the United States to the 1868 Constitution which returned civilian control to the state, Grandage explained to the role these documents had in shaping Florida’s history.

C-SPAN’s Local Content Vehicles (LCVs) made a stop in their “2014 LCV Cities Tour” in Tallahassee, Florida, from February 16-20 to feature the history and literary life of the community. Working with the Comcast Cable local affiliate, they visited literary and historic sites where local historians, authors, and civic leaders were interviewed. The history segments air on American History TV (AHTV) on C-SPAN3 and the literary events/non-fiction author segments air on BookTV on C-SPAN2. close