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Title: Cyclopedia of American government
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: McLaughlin, Andrew Cunningham, 1861-1947 Hart, Albert Bushnell, 1854-1943, joint ed
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Publisher: New York and London, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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eady growth, while its use, especiallyin the newer lines of technology, assures itscontinued progress in the industries and trade.Practically every nation has legalized it andin most of them the metric system is obliga-tory. While the metric system is not expectedto come without effort or expense, the com-pensating advantages have appealed to manyindustries even in advance of legislation. See Weights and Measures, Standards of.H. D. Hubbard. METROPOLITAN POLICE. See Police,Metropolitan. MEXICAN WAR. See Wars of the Unit-ed States. MEXICO. The United Mexican States (Es-tados Unidos Mexicanos) is the fourth largestof American Republics, following the UnitedStates, Brazil and Argentina. Its area is765,537 square miles, situated between latitude14° 30, and 32° 42 north, and longitude 86°46 and 117° 7 west (Greenwich). The popu-lation was 15,063,207 in 1910, not quite 20 persquare mile. Conquered by Cortes, the Aztec Empire yield-ed to the Spanish civilization, but traces of 420 MEXICO
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421 MEXICO, DIPLOMATIC EELATIONS WITH pre-Columbian influences are still strong inthe people. The country was at first calledNew Spain (Nueva Espana) and then em-braced the area between 9° and 40° northlatitude, and 80° and 50° west longitude, thepresent states of Yucatan and Chiapas beingunder the captain-generalcy of Guatamala.Cessions of territory were successively made tothe United States; Texas, 362,487 square miles,Guadalupe-Hidalgo treaty, 522,568 squaremiles, and Gadsden purchase, 45,535 squaremiles leaving the present area as above given(see Annexations; Texas; Compromise of1850; Mexico, Diplomatic Kelations with).Independence from Spain was declared Septem-ber 15 and 16, 1810, and these dates are thenational holidays, the centennial celebrationhaving taken place in 1910. Mexico is a federal union, and the constitu-tion of the republic, adopted February 5, 1857,with various later amendments, provides for arepublican, representative federal form of gov-ernment, similar to

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