"Wisconsin Makes Its Laws" photographs, 1947.

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"Wisconsin Makes Its Laws" photographs, 1947.

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Photographs depicting legislative procedures in Wisconsin made at the same time as the motion picture "Wisconsin Makes Its Laws," produced by Academy Films for the Subcommittee on Government of the State of Wisconsin, 1947. Images include views of the State Assembly in the 1947-1948 session, roll call mechanisms, hearings, the Supreme Court in session, and Governor Oscar Rennebohm.

21 photographs (1 folder)

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Wisconsin. Legislature

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The bicameral Wisconsin Legislature includes the Senate and Assembly, the staff employed by each house and the legislative committees and legislative service agencies which the legislature has created. The Wisconsin Legislature makes policy by enactment of laws, while its service agencies carry out research, bill drafting, auditing and housekeeping functions on its behalf. Each legislature covers two years. From the description of Agency history record. (Unkn...

Academy Films, Hollywood, Calif.

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Wisconsin. Supreme Court

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The basic powers and framework of Wisconsin's court system is laid out in Article VII of the state constitution. Judicial power was vested in a Supreme Court, circuit courts, courts of probate, and justices of the peace. According to the 1848 constitution, the state was divided into 5 judicial circuit districts and the five judges presiding over these circuits were to meet at least once a year at Madison as a Supreme Court until the legislature could establish the Supreme Court as a...

Rennebohm, Oscar, 1889-1968.

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