The Ohio State Constitution

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.

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).