The State of Wisconsin has just celebrated its one hundredth anniversary. The Constitution of the state, framed and adopted at the time of its admission, has in spite of nearly sixty amendments thereto, remained ever since the state's fundamental law. The one hundredth birthday of the state is therefore also that of its constitution and the occasion is an appropriate one to relate the history of its formation, the sources from which it was drawn and the political, social and economic forces which dictated its terms.
