Judiciary. A supreme court, styled court of appeals, consisting of four judges, one to be elected in each district for eight years, in such rotation that one may be elected every two years.  Should the number be changed, the principle of electing one every two years is to be preserved.  A circuit court to be held in each county by a district judge, one to be elected in each of the twelve judicial districts, for six years.  The number of districts may be increased, but may not exceed sixteen until the population shall exceed 1,500,000.  A county court in each county, consisting of a presiding judge and two associates, elected for four years.  Other inferior courts may be established by law.

Justices of the peace in each county are elected in districts, two in each district for four years, and a constable for four years.  A state’s attorney for each judicial district; a sheriff in each county, for two years, and several other county officers.

Electors. White male citizens who have resided in the state two years; in the county, town, or city, one year; and in the precinct in which they offer to vote, sixty days.

Amendments by conventions only are provided for.  No convention may be called by the legislature, until a majority of all the voters of the state shall have voted at two successive elections in favor of calling a convention.

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The first constitution of this state was adopted in 1802, preparatory to her admission into the union; the present one, in 1851.

Legislature—­styled general assembly.  Senators and representatives are elected biennially in their respective counties or districts, in which they must have resided a year.  The ratio of representation in the house is ascertained by dividing the whole population of the state by the number one hundred; the quotient being the ratio for the next ten years.  The ratio for a senator is ascertained by dividing the whole population by thirty-five.  Senators are elected in districts.  The representation of fractions of population is provided for.

Bills are not submitted to the governor.  Quorum, not less than a majority.

Executive. A governor, a lieutenant-governor, a secretary of state, a treasurer, and an attorney-general, are elected for two years; and an auditor for four years.

Judiciary. A supreme court consisting of five judges chosen by the electors of the state at large for five years, one, every year.  The number may be altered by law.  A district court in each of the nine common pleas districts, composed of a supreme court judge and the judges of the court of common pleas of the respective districts, and held in each county within a district, or in at least three places in each district.  One or more of these judges hold a court of common pleas in every county in the district.  A county probate judge is elected for three years.