Method of submitting the question of holding a constitutional Act providing for calling a constitutional convention, 1911 Delegates to constitutional convention, 1912 DETAILED COMPARISONS OF THE CONSTITUTIONS Comparison of the Constitutions of 1851 and 1802 Changes proposed by the Constitution of 1874 Newspaper comments on the proposed Constitution of 1874 345 ILLUSTRATIONS FACSIMILE OF SIGNATURES TO THE FIRST CONSTITUTION OF Frontispiece OHIO, 1802 OHIO, 1851. 116 159 PREFACE This volume presents the documents necessary to the study of the origin, history, and development of constitutional ideas and practices in Ohio. Access to the two active and one proposed Constitutions, to all amendments that have been adopted or proposed, and to certain other fundamental documents are necessary to an intelligent understanding both of the present constitutional status of the state and the needs and possibility of increasing or amending constitutional power. At present, access to many of these documents is only possible by careful search among the state papers at Columbus. Some of the documents herein contained have never before been printed except in contemporary newspapers. The text of some of the documents, as presented heretofore, differs slightly from the original documents themselves. In the present volume an attempt has been made to give the text of all documents exactly as in the original draft of each. Some of the figures relative to votes on constitutional questions have been given heretofore somewhat inaccurately. The figures presented in this volume are taken from the official records or, in certain cases where the official figures are wanting, what appears from careful comparison to be the most authentic. At this time with the constitutional convention soon to meet, it is hoped that the publication of this volume may prove both timely and helpful. Cleveland, January 1, 1912. I. F. P. |