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//Constitution for a Nation// is the story of the 10 tumultuous years (1890–1900) of the creation of the Constitution, the people, the conventions, the arguments, the passion and the politics that created your Constitution. Did you know that an important meeting called the Constitutional Convention (1897 - 1898) was held in Adelaide where the Constitution was written out in draft form? The photograph below shows the Convention in progress in South Australia's then parliament house.



Some of the writing of the Constitution was done at the home of Sir John William Downer in North Adelaide. It is now called Downer House and is part of St Mark's Unversity College.
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Downer House, North Adelaide || The plaque at the entrance to Downer House || The table in Downer House where the Constitution was written by Sir Edmund Barton, Sir John Downer and Mr. Justice O'Connor ||

More information about Sir John William Downer and the part he played in Federation may be found here in the //Australian Dictionary of Biography//: []

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