The government class book: Designed for the instruction of youth in the principles of constitutional government and the rights and duties of citizens.Young, Andrew W. (Andrew White)
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The government class book: Designed for the instruction of youth in the principles of constitutional government and the rights and duties of citizens.
Young, Andrew W. (Andrew White)
United States -- Politics and government -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
_Amendments_ must be agreed to by majorities of all the members of the
two houses of two successive legislatures, and ratified by the people.
The legislature may, by two-thirds majorities, submit to the people the
question of calling a convention for a general revision of the
constitution.
Minnesota.
This state was admitted into the union in 1858.
_Electors._ White male citizens having resided in the United States one
year, and in the state four months. Also foreigners who have so resided,
and declared their intention to become citizens; and persons of mixed
white and Indian blood, and of Indian blood, under certain regulations.
_Legislature._ A senate and a house of representatives. The first
legislature consisted of thirty-seven senators and eighty
representatives.
_Executive._ A governor and a lieutenant-governor are elected for two
years.
A secretary of state, a treasurer, and an attorney-general, are elected
for two years, and a state auditor for three years.
_Judiciary._ The judicial power is vested in a supreme court, district
courts, courts of probate, justices of the peace, and such other courts
inferior to the supreme court, as the legislature may establish by a
two-thirds vote.
Constitution of the United States.
We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect
union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the
common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of
liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this
Constitution for the United States of America.
Article I.
Section. All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested
in a congress of the United States, which shall consist of a senate and
house of representatives.
Sec. 2. The house of representatives shall be composed of
members chosen every second year, by the people of the several states;
and the electors in each state shall have the qualifications requiste
for electors of the most numerous branch of the state legislature.
No person shall be a representative who shall not have attained to the
age of twenty-five years, and been seven years a citizen of the United
States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that state
in which he shall be chosen.
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