The constitution which was adopted on May 6. 1809. is still in effect and is now the oldest written constitution valid in Europe. But let us also honor the present. The first Swedish immigrants trod our shores in 1638. and today by the most modest estimates there are 31/2 million Americans of Swedish stock in our country. My own State of Minnesota is often referred to as Little Sweden. and it is easy to see why. In 1960 over 156.000 Minnesotans were either foreignborn or firstgeneration Swedes. and more than 23.000 of these stalwart people claimed Swedish as a mother tongue.
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