ts 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.

Ohio.

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.

Justices of the peace, a competent number, are elected in each township
for three years.

A sheriff is elected in each county for two years, but may hold only
four years in any period of six years.

_Electors._ White male citizens who have resided in the state