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1 Legislator 1 (1926)

handle is hein.journals/lgsltr1 and id is 1 raw text is: Che American Legislator January, 1926 EMBRYONIC NUMBER Volume 1, Number 1 The Prologue All legislators: Every member of the Legislature of each state and of Congress, during his term of office, is a Regular Member of this Association. No one else is eligible to join. Some preliminary statistics: This organization is made up of the individuals who hold the entire legis- lative authority for a population of one hundred and fifteen million. They direct the finances of states which expend for governmental purposes one and one- third billion dollars a year. The Congressional mem- bers direct the financ's of a government whose ordi- nary expenditures exceed three billion dollars a year. The state legislators in this Association are virtually the directors of forty-eight corporations, which to- gether actually own property worth one and a halt billion dollars, and which owe debts totalling an equal amount. The members of this Association, as legis- lators, are levying annual taxes on property worth one hundred and fifty billion dollars. Election of Local Councils: This Association will have a Local Council for Congress and for each state.* Each State Senator is invited to nominate three of his fellow Senators for the State Council. Each State Rep- resentative is invited to nominate for it four of his fellow Representatives. In each state the Senator who receives the largest vote on the final ballot will become the Chairman of the State Council, a Vice- President of the Association, and a member of its General Assembly. The Representative who receives the largest vote on the final ballot for each state will become Secretary of the State Council, and a member of the Association's General Assembly. General Assembly: The Association's General As- sembly will number one hundred and twenty, com- prising: (1) the Chairman and the Secretary of each State Council, (2) the entire Congressional Council of five Senators and six Representatives, and (3) the Association's officers. Since it will thus include a delegate elected by each house of each legislature, It will be a genuinely representative body, and its recom- mendations to the legislatures concerning subjects which call for interlocking or uniform legislation may attain national significance. It should become the national clearing house for all such proposals. It will elect the Association's Executive Committee from *Throughout this leaflet the term state includes four territories: Alaska, Porto Rico, Hawail, and the Phlippine islands. but they are not included in any statistics. among its own members, and the Executive Commit- tee will elect the President, Secretary-Treasurer and Editor. 3fembership: The Regular Membership includes every member of Congress and of the Legislature of each state. It involves no cost, but terminates at the expiration of the legislator's term. Every Regular Member-and no one else-is eligible to become a Sustaining Member. These members make possible the maintenance of the Association by payment of annual dues. Sustaining Members alone will be eligi- ble for the Local Councils and the General Assembly. After becoming a Sustaining Member, one may con- tinue as such as long as he is In good standing, regard- less of the expiration of his term as a legislator. The fonorary Membership includes the President and Vice-President of the United States for life, and the Governor of each state and territory during his term of office. The American Legislator: Socrates observed that no man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades-that of gov- ernment. This leaflet will be published monthly. It will add somewhat to each legislator's Information concerning the current theory and practice of legisla- tion. Whether or not the non-sustaining members can be supplied with copies of each Issue will depend upon the percentage of the Association's members who give the organization their financial support by becoming Sustaining Members. Advertisements of publishers, surety companies, propagandists and others may justify some expansion of the size of this publi- cation, but the reading matter will probably be re- stricted to the present amount. Meetings: The Association will hold an annual meeting, to which Representatives and Senators from state legislatures and from Congress will come from the various sections of the United States. Directory: The Association will publish an annual directory, containing the name and address of each of its members, thus including every legislator in office in the United States and its territories. The name of each Sustaining Member will be printed in bold-faced type. The name of each legislator who becomes a Sustaining Member at the outset, will be starred In every edition of the Directory in which It appears. Ten thousand copies of the 1926 edition will be pub- lished.

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