The Ohio State Constitution

STEVEN H. STEINGLASS is Dean Emeritus and Professor Emeritus at Cleveland State University’s Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, where he taught from 1980 to 2011 and was Dean from 1996 to 2005. Most recently, he has been teaching state constitutional law at Cleveland-Marshall and at Case Western Reserve University School of Law. From 2013 to 2017, he was Senior Policy Advisor for the Ohio Constitutional Modernization Commission, and since 2018 he has been Course Planner for the annual Ohio State Bar Association program on The Importance of the Ohio Constitution. He received his B.S. from the University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) and his law degree from the Columbia Law School. Dean Steinglass has had visiting appointments at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Widener University School of Law, St. Louis University School of Law, and the University of Wisconsin Law School. He has written law review articles and book chapters about state courts and federal civil rights litigation, as well as a two-volume treatise, Section 1983 Litigation in State Courts (Thomson Reuters). He has argued two cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. GINO J. SCARSELLI is an attorney in private practice in Cleveland, Ohio. He graduated magna cum laude from Cleveland State University’s Cleveland-Marshall College of Law in 1993 and holds a master’s degree in Philosophy from Ohio State University. He has served as law clerk for Judge Solomon Oliver, Jr., of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, and as Assistant Legal Director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio. He currently writes on consumer financial protection laws for Matthew Bender, and he is a volunteer attorney at The Ohio Center for Strategic Immigration Litigation & Outreach (OCSILiO).

Series Foreword by Lawrence Friedman
Foreword by Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor (Second Edition)
Foreword by Chief Justice Thomas J. Moyer (First Edition)

PART ONE: THE HISTORY OF THE OHIO CONSTITUTION
Introduction
The Ohio Territory and the Northwest Ordinance: The Prelude to Statehood
Statehood and Ohio's First Constitution
Ohio's Experience under the Constitution of 1802
Ohio's Second Constitution
The 1873-74 Constitutional Convention
From 1874 to the 1912 Constitutional Convention
The 1912 Constitutional Convention: Constitutional Revision in the Progressive Era
Constitutional Change from 1912 to the End of the Twentieth Century
The Court in the Twentieth Century-From 1912 to the End of the Twentieth Century
The Ohio Constitution in the Twenty-First Century

PART TWO: THE OHIO CONSTITUTION AND COMMENTARY
Article I: Bill of Rights
Article II: Legislative
Article III: Executive
Article IV: Judicial
Article V: Elective Franchise
Article VI: Education
Article VII: Public Institutions
Article VIII: Public Debt and Public Works
Article IX: Militia
Article X: County and Township Organizations
Article XI: Apportionment
Article XII: Finance and Taxation
Article XIII: Corporations
Article XIV: Jurisprudence
Article XV: Miscellaneous
Article XVI: Amendments
Article XVII: Elections
Article XVIII: Municipal Corporations
Article XIX: Congressional Redistricting

Schedules to the Ohio Constitution
Appendix A: Table of Votes on Holding Constitutional Conventions under the 1802 and 1851 Constitutions
Appendix B: Table of Proposed Constitutional Amendments and Votes
Bibliographical Essay and Selected Bibliography
Table of Cases
Index
About the Authors