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Title: Actual government of New York..
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Boynton, Frank D. (from old catalog)
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hat in character the two Houses of the federal legis-lature correspond much more closely to those ^i GreatBritain. Even the names Senate and House of Rep-resentatives were in use in several of the states. Thepresident also, in whom some writers have thought theysaw a copy of the British monarch, corresponds much moreclosely in character and function to the governors of thestates, some of whom were called presidents. In severalstates, too, the office of vice president existed. Somehalf dozen or more of the states also provided a method ofimpeachment. Suggestions from the States. Certain states can hepointed to more especially as furnishing the suggestionsfor particular provisions. We have already seen that thedifferent basis of representation in the two Houses wassuggested by the constitution of Connecticut. The vetopower of the chief executive is found also in the constitutionof Massachusetts; the constitution of Delaware providedfor the election of one third of the senators every two
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The Panama Canal (above and Federal Government MeatInspection below) Our federal government. g this canal, shortened tin- great trade routes of the world by thousands of miles; and by its pure-food laws and food inspection it undertakes to guard the health of those who consume our products 195 196 ACTUAL GOVERNMENT OF NEW YORK years; the constitution of New York made provision for acensus every seven years for the purpose of apportioningrepresentatives; in Massachusetts and New Hampshireall revenue bills originated in the house of representati\As a whole, the plan devised for electing the presidentwas original, but even here the idea of an electoral collwas derived from Maryland. Perhaps the truest proto-type for the Supreme Court is to be found, not in the stalbut in the judicial committee of the privy council in GreatBritain. In fact, in the provisions of the Constitutionthere was little indeed that wias new. Such originalityas there was lay rather in the attempt to frame a writtenc

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