Progressive-Era Constitutions in the Southwest
The chart below contains the same reform categories as the chart for the Great Plains state constitutions of the Granger and Progessive eras (see § __). A comparison shows that Arizona’s constitution was firmly in the mainstream of Granger and Progressive constitutions; New Mexico’s was more conservative.
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