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A new constitution, greatly redressing the checks and balances of power, was drafted by a convention in 1850-51, as directed by the voters, and subsequently adopted in a statewide referendum on June 17, 1851, taking effect on September 1 of that year. This is the same constitution under which the state of Ohio operates.
The second constitution of Ohio, effective in 1851, took away the power of the General Assembly to choose the state's executive officers, granting that right to the voters. A complicated formula apportioned legislators to Ohio counties and the number of seats in the legislative houses varied from year-to-year. [5]
Ohio Constitution of 1912 (amendments to 1851 Constitution) [citation needed] 80th Ohio General Assembly [Wikidata] 1913 81st Ohio General Assembly [Wikidata] 1915
On the 11 March 1851, the eighty-eighth county was organized; no additional county has been created since then. The legislature of 1852–1853, the first elected under the new Ohio constitution, was Democratic and apportioned the state into 21 congressional districts under the Seventh Federal Census.
The Guarantee Clause of Article 4 of the Constitution states that "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government." These two provisions indicate states did not surrender their wide latitude to adopt a constitution, the fundamental documents of state law, when the U.S. Constitution was adopted.
So did an 1851 change in the Ohio constitution, which banned cities from owning stock. That had been an early strategy to get into the rail business. In 1859, city efforts to raise $1 million in ...
Seal of the Supreme Court of Ohio. Bold indicates chief judge or chief justice. The Ohio Supreme Court was created by the Ohio Constitution of 1802 with three judges, and had three or four through 1851. In 1851, the number of judges was increased to five. In 1892, the number of judges was increased to six.
The U.S. Constitution is merely 7,591 words long – the Ohio Constitution is nearly 60,000 words long and includes sections on education, lotteries, livestock, and several other issues. The state ...