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Why were there 4 drafts of the state constitution

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During the Kansas territorial period, four attempts were made to write and adopt a constitution under which Kansas would become a state. The first attempt to write a constitution emerged as a movement — the Topeka movement — in reaction to unfair elections that gave the proslavery party initial control of Kansas' territorial government.

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