Provided by UofU J. Willard Marriot Library. A scanned copy of the April, July, October Utah Historical Quarterly containing the entire State of Deseret Constitution.
"...by September of 1848 the civic duties had been transferred to the Council of Fifty who in December petitioned the Congress of the United States for territorial status. But by early July 1849 a change of thinking had occurred. They desired a state government rather than a territorial government."
"The Constitution of the State of Deseret is the formal application to the federal government for statehood. It is patterned after other such constitutions for the period especially the Constitution for the State of Iowa of 1846..." (here).