This state was admitted into the union in 1858.
_Electors._ White male citizens having resided in the United States one year, and in the state four months. Also foreigners who have so resided, and declared their intention to become citizens; and persons of mixed white and Indian blood, and of Indian blood, under certain regulations.
_Legislature._ A senate and a house of representatives. The first legislature consisted of thirty-seven senators and eighty representatives.
_Executive._ A governor and a lieutenant-governor are elected for two years.
A secretary of state, a treasurer, and an attorney-general, are elected for two years, and a state auditor for three years.
_Judiciary._ The judicial power is vested in a supreme court, district courts, courts of probate, justices of the peace, and such other courts inferior to the supreme court, as the legislature may establish by a two-thirds vote.
We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Section. All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a congress of the United States, which shall consist of a senate and house of representatives.
Sec. 2. The house of representatives shall be composed of members chosen every second year, by the people of the several states; and the electors in each state shall have the qualifications requiste for electors of the most numerous branch of the state legislature.
No person shall be a representative who shall not have attained to the age of twenty-five years, and been seven years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that state in which he shall be chosen.
Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several states which may be included within this union, according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound to service for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three-fifths of all other persons. The actual enumeration shall be made within three years after the first meeting of the congress of the United States, and within every subsequent term of ten years, in such manner as they shall by law direct. The number of representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty thousand, but each state shall have at least one representative; and until such enumeration shall be made, the state of New Hampshire shall be entitled to choose _three_; Massachusetts, _eight_; Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, _one_; Connecticut, _five_; New York, _six_; New Jersey, _four_; Pennsylvania, _eight_; Delaware, _one_; Maryland, _six_; Virginia, _ten_; North Carolina, _five_; South Carolina, _five_; and Georgia, _three_.