citizens; and in the Canton of Luzern, the number of representatives is fixed by the constitution without any regard to the population, or provision for future reapportionment. Every vote-possessing citizen is ordinarily eligible for the Greater Council; the last vestiges of property-qualification having disappeared. The Canton of Geneva limits eligibility to those who have attained their twenty-sixth year. In some Cantons functionaries salaried by the state are excluded. There is a curious diversity presented in the federal and cantonal age-qualification. A citizen of the Grisons attains political majority for cantonal electoral purpose at the age of seventeen, or three years before he can participate in federal elections. In the Canton of Geneva the citizen only attains his political majority for cantonal purpose at the age of twenty-one, or one year after he is a voter at federal elections; and a Genevese can be a member of the Federal Assembly or the federal supreme court or even President of the Confederation six years before he is eligible to his cantonal legislature. The terms in the Greater Council vary from one year to five. In many of the Cantons the members receive no pay; the highest amount paid is in the Canton of Geneva, and it is only six francs for each day that there is a sitting. The Greater Council, besides drafting the laws and decrees, and interpreting, suspending, and repealing them, is ordinarily invested with legislative power over the organization of administrations; the supervision of the execution of the laws; the right of pardon; the ratification of cantonal agreements; the establishment of cantonal taxes and the mode of their collection; naturalization; ratification of loans contracted by the Canton; the acquisition and alienation of cantonal property; public buildings; the fixing of salaries and emoluments; the surveillance of the executive and judicial powers, and the settlement of conflicts of jurisdiction between these powers; the fixing of the annual budget; the appointment of the members of the Lesser or State Council, as well as the members of the Supreme Tribunal. In Geneva, Basel-rural, Zurich, and Thurgau, the members of the Lesser Council are elected directly by the people. This Lesser Council, which constitutes the executive power, is variously called, in the different Cantons, _Conseil d’État_, _Staatsrath_, _Standeskommission_, _Kleinerrath_. Originally it was quite a large body; but recent revisions of the cantonal constitutions have made a reduction in the number, and it now consists of from five to seven members, who distribute among themselves the different departments on the same system as that described of the Federal Council. The terms vary from two years to four. In some Cantons the members must be divided as far as practicable among the several electoral districts. In all the Cantons this executive power is collegiate,--that is, not vested in a single individual, but in a commission.