 This document maintains jurisdiction along with the current constitution which was ratified on May 7, 1879, following the Sacramento Convention.Article 3 Section 2 of the current Constitution references the original boundaries as stated in the 1849 Constitution at Article 7.The result of Progressive mistrust of elected officials, this later constitution took a full year to finalize (March 1878 to March 1879) and is today the third longest in the world (behind the constitutions of Alabama and of India), and has been described as "the perfect example of what a constitution ought "not" to be".