South Carolina adopted its second state constitution. This constitution renamed the ‘lower’ and ‘upper’ houses of the legislative branch as the House of Representatives and the Senate; state senators were popularly elected These houses retained the power to elect the president, which the constitution renamed ‘governor,’ as well as the privy council. Founders Christopher Gadsden and Charles Cotesworth Pinckney led members to vote unanimously for the constitution to disestablish the Church of England. However, the constitution established the “Christian Protestant Religion” as the religion of the state.