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The present Constitution of Mexico bears date February 5, 1857, with subsequent modifications down to May 1908. By its terms Mexico is declared a federative republic, divided into States—19 at the outset, but at present 27 in number, with 3 territories and the Federal District—each of which has a right to manage its own local affairs, while the whole are bound together in one body politic by fundamental and constitutional laws. The powers of the supreme Government are divided into three branches, the legislative, executive, and judicial. The legislative power is vested in a Congress consisting of a House of Representatives and a Senate, and the executive in a President. Representatives are elected for two years by the suffrage of all respectable male adults, at the rate of one member for 40,000 inhabitants. The qualifications requisite are, to be twenty-five years of age, and a resident in the State. The Senate consists of fifty-six members, two for each State, of at least thirty years of age, who are returned in the same manner as the deputies. The members of both Houses receive salaries of 3,000 dollars a year. The President is elected by electors popularly chosen in a general election, holds office for six years, and, according to an amendment of the Constitution in 1887, may be elected for consecutive terms. The election of the Vice-President takes place in the same manner and at the same date as that of the President. The Vice-President is ex officio President of the Senate, with a voice in the discussions but without vote. Failing the President through absence or otherwise, the Vice-President discharges the functions of the President. Failing both, Congress shall call for new elections to be held at once. Congress has to meet annually from April 1 to May 31, and from September 16 to December 15, and a permanent committee of both Houses sits during the recesses.
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Statistical and other Books of Reference concerning Mexico
1. Official Publications
The publications issued by the various departments of government.
Les Etats Unis Mexicains: Leurs Ressources, 4c. Par R. de Zayas Bnriquez. Mexico, 1899.
Memoria del Secretario del despaoho de Fomento, &c. Annual. Mexico
Mexico: Its Social Evolution. By various writers. 3 vols. Mexico, 1900–04.
Mexico: A Geographical Sketch. Bureau of American Republics, Washington, 1904.
Foreign Office Reports, Annual Series and Miscellaneous Series. London.
The Mexican Year-Book, 1908. London, 1908.
2. Non-Official Publications Boletin de la sociedad de geografía y estadistica de la República Mexicana. Mexico
Baedeker’s United States with an Excursion into Mexico. 4th ed. Leipzig, 1908
Bancroft (H. H.), A Popular History of the Mexican People. London.—Resources and Development of Mexico. San Francisco, 1894.
Bonaparte (Prince Roland), and others, Le Mexique au Début du XXe Siècle. Paris, 1904
Burke (U. R.), Life of Benito Juarez. London. 1894.
Campbell (Rean), Complete Guide and Descriptive Book of Mexico. Chicago, 1904.
El economista Mexicano, weekly. Mexico.
Enock (C. R.). Mexico. London, 1909.
Enriquez (R. de Zayas), Los Estados Unidos Mexicanos, 1877–97. New York, 1899.
Flint (H. M.), Mexico under Maximilian. Philadelphia, 1867.
George (P.), Das heutige Mexico und Seine Kulturfortschritte. Jena, 1906.
La Bédollière (Emile G. de), Histoire de la guerre du Mexique. Paris, 1866.
Lovet (Ernest), L’Expédition du Mexique (1861–67). 2 vols. Paris, 1906.
Lumholtz (C.), Unknown Mexico. London, 1903.
Martin (P. F.), Mexico of the Twentieth Century. 2 vols. London, 1907.—Mexico’s Treasure House. London, 1906.
Moses (B.), Constitution of the United States of Mexico. Philadelphia, 1899.
Pimentel (F.), Obras Completas [on Peoples, Languages, Literature, &c. of Mexico. 5 vols. Mexico, 1903–04.
Prescott (W. H.), History of the Conquest of Mexico London.
Schiess (W.), Quer durch Mexico. Berlin, 1902.
Sierra (J.), Mexico: Its Social Evolution. 3 vols. [Eng. Trans.]. Mexico, 1905.
Southworth (J. R.), The Mines of Mexico. 9 vols. Mexico, 1905.—El Territorio de la Baja California. (In Spanish and English.) San Francisco, 1899.
Tweedie (Mrs. A.), Mexico as I saw it London, 1901.—l’orflrio Diaz. London, 1906
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Keltie, J.S. (1911). Mexico. In: Keltie, J.S. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230270404_33
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