The Constitution of 1817 was the states first constitution written when Mississippi entered the Union as a state. Only 15 years later in 1832, however, a new Mississippi constitution was written to replace the original one. After Mississippi's defeat in the Civil War, a third constitution was written and adopted.
The series of acts British Parliament passes in 1774 in reaction to the Boston Tea Party came to be known in the American colonies as the Intolerable Acts.
