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Europe down to a postmastership in the Far West.
They may be estimated at nine-tenths, those delegates
who are engrossed by their own interests at the conven-
tion. In the crowd of politicians who flock to the con-
ventions all ranks are represented: Senators of the United
States, State governors, and so on down to aspirants to
modest places; and each of them has an axe to grind.

62. The representation at the national conventions is
established on a fixed basis: each State sends to them,
whatever the importance of the party in that State,
twice as many delegates as it has Representatives and
Senators in Congress; for instance, the State of New
York, which has, in virtue of its population, thirty-seven
members of the House of Representatives, plus the two
Senators that are allotted to each State indiscriminately,
deputes seventy-eight delegates; the State of Delaware
or of Montana, which has but one Representative in
Congress and its two Senators, sends six delegates to
the convention. Besides this, the Territories, repre-
sented in Congress by delegates without a voice, and
the District of Columbia, not represented at all, are
empowered to take part in the conventions. Their
populations are not allowed to vote for the President, 1 but in order to develop party life in the Territories, the

Compo-
sition of
the National
Convention.

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1 The inhabitants of the District of Columbia, which contains the
Federal capital, the city of Washington, built on neutralized ground
not forming part of any State, and placed under the jurisdiction of
Congress, are permanently excluded from voting (except those who
have a legal domicile elsewhere). As for the Territories, which are
the new parts of the Union, generally reclaimed from the great wilder-
ness of the Far West and not yet formed into States owing to their
imperfect economic and political development, they do not acquire
the right of voting for presidential Electors until they are admitted
into the Union as States.

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Publication Information: Book Title: Democracy and the Party System in the United States. Contributors: M. Ostrogorski - author. Publisher: Macmillan. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1910. Page Number: 134.
    
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