 The Florida Constitution of 1838 provided that a governor be elected every 4 years, who was not allowed to serve consecutive terms.The secessionist constitution of 1861 would have reduced this to two years and removed the term limit, but the state fell to the Union before the first election under that constitution.The rejected constitution of 1865 and the ratified constitution of 1868 maintained the four-year term, though without the earlier term limit, which was reintroduced in the 1885 constitution.