HISTORY OF CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS

Constitution
Art. Sec.

IV
IV
IV
V
IV
V
V
IV
IV
VII
XI
VII
VIII
IV
IV
III
VI
VII
XIII
X
VII
IV
X
VII
X

4
5
11
5
21
9
8
31,32
4
3
4
2
4,5,11
21
1
4
12
1
1
4
31
1
7
1

Subject
Assemblymen, 2-year terms ................
Senators, 4-year  terms  ......................
Biennial legislative sessions ..............
Governor's    salary,   change    from
$1,250  to  $2,500  a  year  ......................
*Legislators' pay changed to $350 a
year...   .................................
*Governor's   salary, changed     from
$1,250  to  $5,000  a  year  ......................
*Lt. governor's salary increased to
$ 1,000  a  y ea r  ........................................
*Against grand jury system ..................
*Private and local laws, prohibited on
9 subjects .............................
Supreme court, 1 chief and 4 asso-
ciate justices ............................
*Indebtedness of municipalities lim-
ited  to  5%  ............................................
*Supreme court, I chief and 4 asso-
ciate  justices  .................................
*Claims against state, 6-year limit........
*Biennial sessions; assemblymen 2-
year, senators 4-year terms.
*Legislators' pay changed to $500 a
year  ................................................
*Voting residence 30 days; in munici-
palities  voter  registration  ................
*County officers except judicial, va-
cancies filled by appointment.
*Clerk of court, full term election.
*Political year; biennial elections.
State superintendent, qualifications
and pay fixed by legislature ..........
*Supreme court, composed of 5 justices
of  suprem e  court  ........................ .
*Cities incorporated by general lw ..
State superintendent, pay fixed by
la w  ..........................................................
*Circuit judges, additional in popu-
lous  counties  ........................ ......
*State supt., nonpartisan election 4-
year term, pay fixed by law ..........

2
7
13
7

F
App
Bill 286,
SIR  35
SIR  26
AIR  13
AIR   6
SIR  14
SIR  12
AJR  17
SIR  16
SIR  14
SIR   9
AJR  26
AIR  16

irst
roval
A.,         Bill 1
Ch. 95 1853    ""
JR  4      1861 SIR
JR  9 1865 SIR
JR  9 1868 SIR
JR  7 1869 SIR
JR 13 1870 AIR
JR  2 1871 AIR
JR 11 1872 SIR
IR 10 1876 SIR
JR  7 1876 SIR
none 18801 AIR
none  1881 SIR"

18 IR 5 1882

JR
JR
JR
JR
JR

3 1882
4 1887
3 188
4 1891
2 189F

10 JR 9 1897
24 JR 3 1901

Submission   Date of

Second
Approval
51, A.,
Ch. 89 1854
"

to Peopl

15
16
6
3
29
16
6
2
5
7

JR  6 1862
JR  3 1866
JR  2 1869
JR  3 1870
JR  1 1871
JR  8 1872
JR  4 1873
JR  1 1877
JR  4 1877
none 1881

Vote         Total
Vote for
For   Against Governor

Ch.
Ch.
Ch.
Ch.
Ch.
Ch.
Ch.
Ch.
Ch.
Ch.
Ch.
Ch.
Ch.
Ch.
Ch.
Ch.
Ch.
Ch.
Ch.

89
202
25
186
118
122
111
37
48
158
262
272
290
357
22
362
177
69
258

e      Election
1854 Nov. 1854
1862 Nov. 1862
1867 Nov. 1867
1869 Nov. 1869
1870 Nov. 1870
1871 Nov. 1871
1872 Nov. 1872
1874 Nov. 1874
1877 Nov. 1877
1877
1881 Nov. 1881
1882 Nov. 1882
1882
1887 Nov. 1888
1889 Apr. 1889
1891 Nov. 1892
1895 Nov. 1896
1897 Apr. 1897
1901 Nov. 1902

none 1881

SIR  20
"

6,549
6,348
6,752
14,519
58,363
47,353
"
48,894
54,087
16,272
66,061
79,140
33,046
53,532
36,223
60,091
12,967
125,759
15,718
38,752
45,823
71,550

11,580
11,885
11,589
32,612
24,418
41,764
"
18,606
3,675
29,755
1,509
16,763
3,371
13,936
5,347
8,089
18,342
14,712
9,015
56,506
41,513
57,411

..............
..............1
142,522
130,781
'*
146,9532
147,274
..............1
..............
178,122
171,856
..............
354,714
211,1113
371,559
444,110
119,5723
365,676

0
z
0
z

16 JR 34 1885 AJR
19 JR   5 1887 AIR
13 JR  4 1889 SIR
15 JR 10 1893 SIR
9 JR   8 1895 SIR
21 JR 16 18991 SIR