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Francis Newton Thorpe: was an influential American legal scholar, historian and political scientist in the late 19th and early 20th century. He was a fellow and professor of American Constitutional of American Constitutional History at the University of Pennsylvania from 1885-1898, and a leading member of the American Historical Association.

Thorpe served as chief editor of The History of North America Project conducted by the University of Pennsylvania, and wrote or edited several scholarly books including but not limited to: ''The Constitutional History of the American People; A(State) Constitutional History of the American People 1776-1850; A (social and political) History of the American People; A School History of the United States; The Government of the People of the United States; A Course in Civil Government; Benjamin Franklin and the University of Pennsylvania; The Life of William Pepper Provost of the University of Pennsylvania; The Spoils of Empire; The Divining Rod; The Civil War: The National View; Francis Newton Thorpe, A Short Constitutional History of the United States etc.. etc..''

Francis Newton Thorpe's compilation of state constitutions and work on state constitutional development remains one of the most influential works in the field, and the current NBER/Maryland State Constitutions Project drew heavily on Thorpe's 1906 publication The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, and the Organic Laws of the State, Territories, and Colonies; Now or heretofore Forming the United States of America. Washington, D.C. 1909. More information of State Constitutions including Francis Newton Thorpe's work can be found at http://www.stateconstitutions.umd.edu