The Delaware Constitution of 1831 was the third governing document for Delaware state government and was in effect from its adoption on December 2, 1831 until replaced on June 4, 1897 by the present state Constitution. Members of the Delaware Constitutional Convention of 1831. The Convention convened in 1831 and adjourned December 2, 1831. Charles Polk Jr. President Thomas Adams John Caulk John M. Clayton Peter L. Cooper Thomas Deakyne Edward Dingle William Dunning John Elliott James Fisher Willard Hall Thomas W. Handy John Harlan Charles H. Haughey Hughitt Layton James C. Lynch James B. Macomb Joseph Maull Elias Naudain Wiliam Nicholls Samuel Ratcliff John Raymond George Read Jr. Henry F. Rodney James Rodgers William Seal Pressley Spruance, Jr. William D. Waples References See also Delaware Constitution of 1776 Delaware Constitution of 1792 Delaware Constitution of 1897, current Constitution of 1831 Defunct state constitutions of the United States 1831 in Delaware 1831 in American law