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Title: Civics for New York State
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Hoxie, Charles De Forest
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Publisher: New York : American Book Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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econvention to the people, has been described in a previouschapter. SUMMARY. State and local government is carried on in three depart-ments, legislative, executive and judiciary. The legislative department makes laws, the executivedepartment enforces the law, and the judiciary departmentinterprets the law and applies it in particular cases. The legislature, composed of a senate of fifty membersand an assembly of one hundred and fifty members, is thechief constituent of the States legislativedepartment. The legislative houses act as checks upon each other toprevent ill-advised and hasty legislation. SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS. What are the departments of State government ? De-scribe generally the purposes of each. Is it proper to speak of the State legislature as a primaryassembly ? Describe in detail the constitution of the New York legis-lature. JFor an account of the initiative and referendum as practiced in the Swissrepublic, see The Referendum in Switzerland, by Deploige.Hoxies N. Y.- 9
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THE LEGISLATURE. 139 Mention a difference between the powers of the lieutenantgovernor, while presiding over the senate, and the powersof the speaker. What are some of the advantages of a legislature com-posed like that of New Yorks over a legislature of a singlehouse ? What is meant by initiative and referendum ? CHAPTER XIV. The Legislature—(Continued). Every ten years the people of New York are countedfor the purpose of apportioning senators and assemblymenamong them. This count takes place in the years endingwith the figure 5. On the result of such count or census,as it is called, are fixed the boundaries of the senate andassembly districts. Senate Districts and Senators.—The State constitution*says that the ratio for apportioning senators shall always befound by dividing the whole number of inhabitants of theState, aliens excepted, by fifty. Thus if the State at a par-ticular census be found to contain a population of ten mil-lions, each 200,000, or one fiftieth part of the w

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