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Addressing the territorial legislative
council, Mason told them that the Michigan Territory faced a crisis.
Michigan's most recent effort to join the Union had failed. The
territory's request to Congress for an enabling act—permission to call a
constitutional convention—had been rejected. The 23-year-old chief
executive declared that Michigan had a right to become a state and asked
the council to call a constitutional convention. Twelve days later, the
council concurred; delegates would be elected in April and gather in
Detroit the following month.
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