Statutes At Large Volume 36 Page 557 "An Act To enable the people of New Mexico to form a constitution and state government and be admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States; and to enable the people of Arizona to form a constitution and state government and be admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States." Sections 19-35 cover Arizona.

• The fight for statehood did not end with the passage of the Enabling Act. There was the political fight for control of the Constitutional Convention; the fight over the character of the Constitution; the fight for ratification of the Constitution by the people of Arizona, and the fight for approval by the Congress and the President the latter a requirement which had not been imposed upon states previously admitted.