 | Frederick Martin, Sir John Scott Keltie, Isaac Parker Anderson Renwick, Mortimer Epstein, Sigfrid Henry Steinberg, John Paxton, Brian Hunter, Barry Turner - Economic geography - 1876 - 876 pages
...hold office under the will of the president. The whole legislative power is vested by the constitution in a Congress, consisting of a Senate and House of Representatives. The Senate, or Upper House, consists of two members from each State, chosen by the State legislatures for six years.... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1876 - 894 pages
...employed by the government in that service. The national legislature consists of a congress composed of a senate and house of representatives. The senate consists of two senators from each state chosen by the respective legislatures for six years, in such a way that one... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - United States - 1878 - 348 pages
...rest. Provisions of the Constitution. — The Constitution vests the legislative, or law-making, power in a Congress, consisting of a Senate and House of Representatives. The Senate is composed of two members from each state, who hold office for six years ; the House of Representatives,... | |
 | Samuel Augustus Mitchell - 1879 - 348 pages
...Executive: the first-named power makes the laws, the second expounds them, and the last executes them. 20. The Legislative power is vested in a Congress, consisting of a Senate and a Ilouse of Representatives. The Senate consists of two m?mbers from each State, who arc elected for... | |
 | Political science - 1880 - 942 pages
...will of the President of the United States. The whole legislative power is vested by the constitution in a Congress, consisting of a Senate and House of Representatives. The Senate, or Upper House, consists of two members from each State, chosen by the State legislatures for six years.... | |
 | 1880 - 464 pages
...to Parliament in Great Britain, which consists of a House of Lords and a House of Commons. SENATE. The Senate consists of two members from each State, elected by the Legislature thereof respectively for six years. They are divided into three classes, each one-third, which is renewed... | |
 | Education - 1880 - 754 pages
...government is divided into three departments, the Executive, vested in a President; the Legislative, vested in a Congress consisting of a Senate and House of Representatives; and the Judicial, vested in a Chief Justice and nine associate Justices, constituting the Supreme Court.... | |
 | George Goudie Chisholm - Geography - 1882 - 1020 pages
...considered as a Union, have one supreme legislature, which takes the name of Congress, and consists of a Senate and House of Representatives. The Senate...consists of two members from each state elected by its own legislature for six years, one-third of the whole body being renewable biennially. Senators... | |
 | Geography - 1884 - 616 pages
...President, who holds office for four years, a Vice-President, and a Congress, consisting of a Semite and a House of Representatives. The Senate consists of two members from each state, chosen by its legislature for a term of six years, one-third of them being elected every two years.... | |
 | New York (State) School for the deaf, White Plains - 1885 - 942 pages
...departments — the Legislative, the Executive and the Judicial. The legislative consists of two bodies, the Senate and House of Representatives. The Senate consists of two members from each state ; the House of Representatives embraces a certain number of re chosen directly by the people of the... | |
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Constitution in a Congress, consisting of a Senate and House of Representatives. The Senate consists of two members from each State, chosen by the State Legislatures for six years. 
