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The present Constitution of Mexico bears date February 5, 1857, with subsequent modifications down to October 1887. By its terms Mexico is declared a federative republic, divided into States —19 at the outset, but at present 27 in number, with 2 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 elected by the suffrage of all respectable male adults, at the rate of one member for 40,000 inhabitants, hold their places for two years. 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.
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Statistical and other Books of Reference concerning Mexico. 1. Official Publications
Anales dol ministerio de fomento, colonizacion, industria y comercio. 8. Mexico, 1894.
Boletin del ministerio de fomento de la República Mexicana. Fol. Mexico. 1894.
Boletin scmestral de la estadistica de la República Mexicana, á cargo del Dr. Antonio Peñafiel. Mexico, 1894.
Comercio exterior de Mexico. Fol. Mexico. 1894.
Cuadro geografico, estadistico descriptivo é historico de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos. A. G. Cubas. Mexico, 1889.
Datos mercantiles. Mexico, 1893.
Estadistica general de la Repûblica Mexicana. Mexico, 1894.
Importaciones, 1889-90. Mexico, 1893.
Memoria del Secretario del despacho de Hacienda. Fol. Mexico, 1894.
Foreign Office Reports, Annual Series and Msscellaneous Series. 8. London.
Statistique descriptive et historique des Etats Mexicains de Garcia Cubas. 1889.
Annual Statement of the Trade of the United Kingdom with Foreign Countries and British Possessions in the year 1893. 4. London, 1894.
2. Non-Officials Publications
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Keltie, J.S. (1895). Mexico. In: Keltie, J.S. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230253247_30
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