one year,
and in the county, township, or ward, such time as the law shall
prescribe.

_Amendments_ are proposed by three-fifths of all the members elected to
each house, and ratified by a majority of the voters who vote thereon at
an election. Or a majority of two-thirds of all the members of each
house may submit to the electors the question of calling a convention;
and if a majority of the electors vote for a convention, the legislature
shall provide for calling the same. Every twentieth year, the question
of calling a convention is to be submitted to the electors.

Indiana.

This state formed a constitution and was admitted into the union, in
1816. The present constitution was adopted in 1851.

_Electors._ White male citizens, having resided in the state six months.
Also foreigners who have resided in the United States one year, in the
state six months, and have declared their intention to become citizens.

_Legislature_--styled _general assembly_. The number of senators may not
exceed fifty; the number of representatives may not exceed one hundred;
both to be chosen in their respective counties or districts, senators
for four years, one-half every two years; representatives for two years.
Both are apportioned according to the number of white male inhabitants
twenty-one years of age, every six years. They must have been citizens
of the state two years; of the county or district, one year. Senators
must be twenty-five years of age.

Quorum, two-thirds. Bills must be finally passed by majorities of all
the members elected. The same majorities enact a bill disapproved by the
governor. If he does not return a bill within three days, it is a law,
unless its return is prevented by adjournment; in which case it will be
a law, unless he shall, within five days after the adjournment, file the
bill, with his objections, in the office of the secretary of state, who
shall lay the same before the general assembly at the next session, as
if it had been returned by the governor. Bids may not be presented to
the governor within two days previous to the adjournment.

_Executive._ The governor is elected for four years; and is eligible
only four years in eight. Age, thirty years; citizenship, five years;
state residence, five years. A lieutenant-governor.

A secretary of state, an auditor, and a treasurer, are elected for two
years, and are eligible four years in six.

_Judiciary._ A supreme court, circuit courts, an