Essentials in civil government; . ession the transaction of business in a deliberate way. But ithas not remained unchanged; as population has increased,the number of inhabitants for each representative hasbeen made larger. At the present time each State is al-lowed to send one representative for every 194,182 in-habitants. This gives Delaware one member in the House,and New York thirty-seven members. The representa- 158 NATIONAL GOVERNMENT tives from all the States number 391. Each State is di-vided by its Legislature into a number of CongressionalDistricts, each district containing, as near a
Essentials in civil government; . ession the transaction of business in a deliberate way. But ithas not remained unchanged; as population has increased,the number of inhabitants for each representative hasbeen made larger. At the present time each State is al-lowed to send one representative for every 194,182 in-habitants. This gives Delaware one member in the House,and New York thirty-seven members. The representa- 158 NATIONAL GOVERNMENT tives from all the States number 391. Each State is di-vided by its Legislature into a number of CongressionalDistricts, each district containing, as near as may be,194,182 inhabitants. Thus Iowa, with 2,231,853 inhabit-ants, is divided into eleven congressional districts, andis entitled to eleven members in the House of Represen-tatives. The House of Representatives, upon meeting, organizesin very much the same way that the lower house in aState Legislature is organized. A Speaker, a Clerk, aSergeant-at-Arms, and Messengers are elected, and Com-mittees are appointed by the Senate in Session The Senate.—^The States are represented in Congressby senators. It was the purpose of those who framed theConstitution to preserve the power and dignity of the CONGRESS 159 State as far as possible. For this reason one State is aswell represented in the Senate as another; each State,whether great or small, being entitled to two , which has a population of 45,000, has as muchpower in the Senate as has New York, with a populationof 7,000,000. This, at first sight, may seem to you to beunjust, but the more you study the subject the more rea-son you will see for the law. Probably the only way toenable the smaller States to preserve their rights is to givethem equal power with the larger States in the are not elected by the people but by the Legisla-tures of the different States. The election is so arrangedthat when a new Congress meets only one-third^of the Sen-ate can consist of new members. As there are
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