.

_Judiciary._ A supreme court, circuit courts, justices of the peace, and
such other tribunals as the general assembly shall establish. The three
judges of the supreme court are elected by the electors of the state for
six years. A judge in each of the circuits is elected by the electors
thereof for six years. Justices of the peace are elected in the
townships.

_Amendments_ may be proposed every fourth year by a majority of the
whole of each house; and they take effect when ratified by the electors
of the state.

Tennessee.

This state was admitted into the union with its first constitution in
1796. The present one was formed in 1835.

_Legislature_--styled _general assembly_. Representatives are
apportioned among the counties or districts according to the number of
qualified voters in each, and are not to exceed seventy-five until the
population of the state shall be 1,500,000, and may never exceed
ninety-nine. They must be citizens of the state three years, and
residents of the county they represent one year. Senators are
apportioned as representatives; the number not to exceed one-third of
the number of representatives; must be thirty years of age; in other
respects qualified as representatives. Both are elected biennially.

Bills passed by both houses are laws without having been presented to
the governor. _Quorum_, two-thirds of each house.

_Executive._ The governor is elected for two years; and may not hold the
office more than six in any term of eight years. He must be thirty years
of age, and have been a citizen of the state seven years. No
lieutenant-governor.

A secretary of state for four years, and a treasurer for two years, are
chosen by joint vote of the general assembly.

_Electors._ White males having been citizens of the county six months;
also male persons of color, twenty-one years of age, who are competent
witnesses in a court of justice against a white man.

_Judiciary._ A supreme court, such inferior courts as the legislature
may establish, and justices' courts. The supreme court consists of three
judges, one in each of the grand divisions of the state, elected for
twelve years. Judges of inferior courts are elected for eight years. For
the election of justices of the peace, each county is divided into
districts of convenient size, in each of which are elected two justices
and one constable. A district containing a county town, may elect three
justices and two constables.