 | Almanacs, American - 1811 - 354 pages
...division of the votes of the Senators. In his absence, a President pro tempore is chosen by the Senate. The House of Representatives is composed of members from the several States, elected by the people for the term of two years. The Representatives are apportioned among the different... | |
 | Almanacs, American - 1839 - 694 pages
...division bf the votes of the Senators. In his absence, a President pro tempore is chosen by the Senate. The House of Representatives is composed of members from the several States, elected by the people for the term of two years. The Representatives are apportioned among the different... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - Cyclopaedias - 1831 - 484 pages
...Representatives, and a Senate, the concurrente of both of which is necessary to the making of CIVIL POLITY. a law. A bill which has passed both branches, must...according to an act of Congress, of the 3d of March, 1823, sending one representative for every 40,000 persons computed according to the constitution. No person... | |
 | Gray and Bowen - 1831 - 364 pages
...division of the votes of the senators. In his absence, a President pro tempore is chosen by the Senate. The House of Representatives is composed of members from the several states, elected by the people for the term of two years. The representatives are apportioned among the different... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - Domestic animals - 1833 - 478 pages
...branches, must be signed by the presiding officers, which being done, it ii sent to the President for bis signature. If he signs it, it is established as law...according to. the population — each state, at the ]>rr>i'nt lime, according to an act of Congress, of the 3d of March, 1823, sending one representative... | |
 | George Palmer Putnam - Chronology, Historical - 1833 - 374 pages
...division of the votes of the senators. In his absence, a Presidentpro tcmpore is chosen by the Senate. The House of Representatives is composed of members from the several states, elected by the people for the term of two years. The representatives are apportioned among the different... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - Civilization - 1836 - 588 pages
...division of the votes of the Senators. In his absence a President pro ten/pore is chosen by the Senate. The House of Representatives is composed of members...states, chosen by the people for the term of two years. IVo person is qualified to be a member, who is under twenty-five years of age. and who has not been... | |
 | Almanacs, American - 1840 - 362 pages
...division of the votes of the Senators. In his absence, a President pro tempore is chosen by the Senate. The House of Representatives is composed of members from the several States, elected by the people for the term of two years. The Representatives are apportioned among the different... | |
 | Ralph Willard Allen - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1842 - 216 pages
...each State ; the Vice President is the President of the Senate. The House of Representatives consists of members from the several States, chosen by the People for the term of two years. States or Territories. Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Alabama, Mississippi, 21,719.04 91,278.12... | |
 | George Watterston - Washington (D.C.) - 1842 - 252 pages
...division of the votes of the Senators. In his absence, a President pro tempore is chosen by the Senate. The House of Representatives is composed of members from the Several States, elected by the people for the term of two years. The Representatives are apportioned among the different... | |
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Vice-President of the United States is the President of the Senate, in which body he has only a casting vote, which is given in case of an equal division of the votes of the Senators. In his absence, a President pro tempore is chosen by the Senate. 
