The Ohio State Constitution: (Oxford Commentaries on the State Constitutions of the United States)

The second edition of The Ohio State Constitution begins with a detailed summary and analysis of the history of the Ohio Constitution, including the pre-statehood Northwest Ordinance of 1787 (i.e., the Northwest Ordinance), the adoption of the 1802 Constitution, which resulted in Ohio> 's admission as the 17th state in the Union, and the adoption of the 1851 Constitution, Ohio> 's current constitution. In-depth attention is given to the 34 amendments that have their origins in the work of the Progressive-era 1912 Constitutional Convention, which proposed the initiative and referendum, and the home rule amendment. The historical commentary also covers the modern efforts to use commissions to revise the constitution, and the emergence of the new judicial federalism in Ohio. In Part Two, the book contains detailed commentaries on each of the 220+ sections of the constitution, and the commentary on each of the 19 Articles begins with an article-specific introductory essay.

Table of Contents:
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

About the Author :
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).

Review :
The second edition represents a remarkable contribution to the body of scholarship on state constitutional law, and certainly it should represent the starting point for nearly any research project on the Ohio Constitution. The Ohio Constitution is the Buckeye State's foundational legal and political document. Steinglass and Scarselli have provided a comprehensive analysis of that document. Theirs is the definitive work on the subject. It belongs on every judge's and lawyer's bookshelf, and it deserves a wide reading among informed citizens.