Excerpt from The Lesson of Popular Government, Vol. 2 All the States place their executive power, at least nominally, in the hands Of a governor elected by the peo ple, to whom in most a lieutenant-governor is added. In all the States there are two branches Of the legislature also elected by the people and practically with universal manhood suffrage. In all there is a written constitution regularly adopted by the people and supposed to be supe rior to either legislature or executive. In nearly all the governor has a veto, more or less restricted, upon legisla tion. In all the judiciary has much the same organiza tion, and in all but one or two is filled by popular election. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.