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Welcome to the Quill Project home page. Here you can find more information about the project, what can be achieved on the platform and the team behind it.
We work to research the history and enhance understanding of some of the world's foundational legal texts.
A negotiated text is the product of a formal decision-making process where a text has been negotiated and drafted over a period of time.
Think of the process as made up of four elements — people, procedures, documents, and decisions.
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Quill's central aim in the coming decade is therefore to model the work of the 50 state conventions that created the currently operative state constitutions, and thus those with most immediate legal implications.
Thereafter, we plan to model the work of all the conventions held throughout the history of the United States to chart the development across time and place of fundamental constitutional law.
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Despite their continued importance in governing the day-to-day lives of US citizens, including recent calls from the Supreme Court to pay greater attention to these texts, State constitutional conventions have received scant academic attention, in part because of the neglected and scattered state of the relevant archives and in part because of the previous difficulty of making the records of such processes easily intelligible even if collated and edited.
Quill’s central aim in the coming decade is therefore to model the work of the 50 state conventions that created the currently operative state constitutions, and thus those with most immediate legal implications. Thereafter, we plan to model the work of all the conventions held throughout the history of the United States to chart the development across time and place of fundamental constitutional law. Just as editorial work at the start of the twentieth century transformed understanding of the origins of Federal, Quill will transform access to and the utility of neglected documents that elucidate the basis of the US political system.
Building on the model pioneered in our partnership with UVU, we are seeking to build collaborative relationships with universities close to the relevant archives in order to achieve this ambitious target.
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Holly is a Documentary Editor on a variety of U.S constitutional projects and as part of her role she coordinates with student editors at Utah Valley University wherein she oversees the National Archive Grant Projects and the upcoming Declaration of Independence Project.
Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin announced a joint effort between his office, the University of Arkansas and the Quill Project at Oxford University to preserve historical documents of Arkansas's history.
Constitution Day Conference 2023: Presenters included Dr. Nicholas Cole, director of the Quill Project, Pembroke College, Oxford University; Liné Fourie, Grace Yeager, and Joseph Andersen-Stanley, CCS Wood Research Assistants
The collaboration between UVU and Oxford may have seemed unlikely at first, but has proved incredibly fruitful for both institutions.
Quill Project, Pembroke College, Oxford, OX1 1DW, United Kingdom
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