Government,
Constitutional Law
Dec. 20, 2021
How many California’s should we have?
We tend to take for granted California’s boundaries, which are unchanged since admission as a state. However, efforts to divide California began even before statehood and have continued into the 21st century.
John S. Caragozian
Email: caragozian@gmail.com
John is a Los Angeles-based lawyer and sits on the Board of the California Supreme Court Historical Society. He welcomes ideas for future monthly columns on California's legal history at caragozian@gmail.com.
We tend to take for granted California's boundaries, which are unchanged since admission as a state. However, efforts to divide California began even before statehood and have continued into the 21st century.
Under Spain, California stretched 1,500 miles from the southern tip of Baja to present-day Sonoma. It was originally governed as a single province, despite difficult or impossible travel from one end to t...
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