Electors. White male citizens having resided in the state one year.  A poll or capitation-tax of not less than fifty cents, nor more than a dollar, may, in case of necessity, be laid upon every voter under sixty years of age.

Amendments must be proposed by two-thirds majorities of all the members of one legislature, approved by majorities of all the members of the next legislature, and ratified by the electors at the next general election.  Or, the legislature, by two-thirds majorities of all the members, may submit to the people the question of calling a convention; and if a majority of the electors voting for representatives shall vote for a convention, an act for calling one shall be passed.

Michigan.

This state was admitted into the union in 1836.  The present constitution was adopted in 1850.

Legislature. The senate has thirty-two members, elected in single districts, for two years.  Representatives, not less than sixty-four, nor more than one hundred, are elected also in single districts, for two years.  An apportionment of members is made every ten years.  Any qualified elector holding no other office, is eligible to either house.

The final passage of bills requires a majority of all the members elected to each house.  Majorities of two-thirds of all the members pass bills against the veto.  Bills not returned within ten days, are laws unless their return is prevented by adjournment.  Bills passed within the last five days of a session, may be signed by the governor and filed by him in the office of the secretary of state within five days after the adjournment; and the same become laws.

Executive. The governor is elected for two years; must be thirty years of age; have been a citizen of the United States five years, and a resident of the state two years.  A lieutenant-governor.

Judiciary. A supreme court, circuit courts, a probate court, and justices of the peace.  For six years, and until the legislature shall otherwise provide, the circuit judges are to be judges of the supreme court.  After six years, a supreme court may be organized, consisting of a chief-justice and three associate justices, chosen by the electors for eight years, and so classed that only one of them shall go out of office at a time.  A circuit judge is elected in each of the eight judicial circuits for six years.  The number of circuits may be increased.  The probate judge of each county is elected for four years.

Justices of the peace, not exceeding four, are elected in each township, for four years.

Electors. White male citizens who have resided in the state three months, and in the township or ward ten days; also foreigners after a residence of two and a half years in the state, and a declaration of their intention to become citizens; and civilized males of Indian descent.

A secretary of state, a superintendent of public instruction, a treasurer, a commissioner of the land-office, an auditor-general, and attorney-general, are elected for two years.