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Title: Actual government of New York..
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Boynton, Frank D. (from old catalog)
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Amendment it has con-sisted of the whole number o\ persons in each state exceptuntaxed Indians. Since the meeting of the first Congress the number o\members in the House of Representatives has been increasedwith the increase of population, though not in direct pro-portion. After every decennial census Congress deter-mines what shall be the whole number of representatives,and they are then apportioned among the >tatcs accordingto population. By act of Congress, approved August, 1911,to take effect March 4, 1913, the number of representativeswas fixed at 435, which is in the ratio of on: representativeto about 220,000 of the population. In the first House theratio was one for about every 61,000. The criticism issometimes made that the House has become so large as tobe unwieldy, but it is still small in comparison with thelower houses of the leading European legislatures. InEngland the corresponding body consists of 670 members;in France, of 602 ; in Germany, of 397. If a new state is
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: i Cu 1MB! k (above) \\i) THE Cfl UIBEB be Hoi . i aiiv! s bel 205 206 ACTUAL GOVERNMENT OF NEW YORK admitted after an apportionment act is passed, the newmembers are additional to those provided for by the act. Besides the regular representatives from the states,there are in the House delegates from the territories, eachorganized territory being entitled to one. These delegateshave the privilege of speaking on any question affectingtheir territories, but are allowed no vote. Since represen-tation in the Senate is based on the states and dividedamong all the states equally, each stale being entitledto two senators, that body also increases in size withthe admission of every new state. Composed at first oftwenty-six members, it now numbers ninety-six. The Suffrage. The member- of the House of Representa-tives are chosen directly by the people in each State. Atthe time of the Constitutional Convention the limitationsupon the suffrage differed very considerably in the differ-ent states,

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