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[Lat.sto=to stand.] [POSÉ.] *sta-tär-i-an, a. [Latin statarius =stationary; sto to stand.] Steady, well-disciplined. "A detachment of your statarian soldiers to escort him into the regions of physiology and pathology."- Search : Light of Nature , vol. 11., pt. ii., ch. xxiii. *sta-tär-i-an-ly, adv . [Eng. statarian; -ly.] IMG:content-0209.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0210.png:[blocks in formation] "Our state thinks not so."- Shakesp .: Coriolanus , iv. 3. 12. The power wielded by the government of a country; the civil power, often as contrasted with ecclesiastical. "The same criminal may be absolved by the church, and condemned by the state ; absolved or pardoned by the state , yet censured by the church."-Lesley. 13. One of the commonwealths or bodies politic which together go to compose a federal republic, and which stand in certain specified relations with the central or national Government, and, as regards internal affairs, are more or le independent; as, the State of Pennsylvania. The erection of the constituent members of the American Union into their present status and reciprocal relations may be said properly to have begun with the formal ratification of the first Constitution of the United States, the order of which, by states, is given below. Prior to this action on their part, the colonies had occupied simply the position of a congeries of provinces banded together for mutual defense, and having no other organic union than a common legislative body composed of delegates sent from each colony, which delegates might be withheld and all connection with the general body di olved by the independent action of any one of the commonwealths composing it. The first to enter the sisterhood of states by ratifying the Constitution was Delaware, which, on December 7, 1787, unanimously voted its adoption; then followed Pennsylvania, December 12, 1787, vote 46 to 23; New Jersey, December 18, 1787, unanimously; Georgia, January 2, 1788, unanimously; Connecticut, January 9, 1788, vote 128 to 40; Ma achusetts, February 6, 1788, vote 187 to 168; Maryland, April 28, 1788, vote 63 3 to to 12; South Carolina, May 23, 1788, vote 149 to 73; New Hampshire, June 21, 1788, vote 57 to 46: Virginia, June, 1788, vote 89 to 79; New York, July 26, 1758, vote 30 to 28; North Carolina, November 21. 1789, vote 193 to 75; Rhode Island, May 29, 1790, vote 34 to 32. It will thus be seen that Delaware is real y pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, the oldest state in the Union while Rhode Island is the youngest. After the ratification of the Constitution and the entrance into statehood by the thirteen original parties to the contract, the other members of the Union were admitted by act of Congre , upon their own petition and authority in the following order: Alabama........ Dec. 14, 1819 Mi ouri.......Aug. 10, 1821 Arkansas... June 15, 1836 Montana..... Nov. 8, 1889 Sept. 9, 1850 Nebraska..... March 1, 1867 Aug, 1, 1876 Nevada..... Oct. 31, 1864 March 3, 1845 North Dakota... Nov. 2, 1889...July 3, 1890 Ohio.... California... Colorado.... Florida. Idaho. Illinois Indiana. Iowa. Kansas. Jan. 19, 1803.Feb. 14, 1859 .Dec. 3, 1818 Oregon Dec. 11, 1816 South Dakota... Nov. 2, 1889 Dec. 28, 1846 Tenne ee. Jan. 29, 1861 Texas... June 1, 1796 .Dec. 29, 1845 Kentucky... June 1, 1792 Vermont...... March 4, 1791 Louisiana... April 30, 1812 Washington... Nov. 11, 1889 Maine March 15, 1820 West Virginia. June 19, 1863 Michigan..Jan. 26, 1837 Wisconsin.. May 29, 1848 Minnesota...... May 11, 1858 Wyoming...... July 10, 1889 Mi i ippi..... Dec. 10, 1817 Utah has become the forty-fifth state. The constitution was set for ratification at the November election in 1895. After the conclusion of the civil war, for a time the seceding states were deprived of statehood, and were subjected to military or territorial rule. Gradually, however, a reconstruction of the organic government of the states was accom plished, and they were readmitted into full fellow: ship in the galaxy of states. The government of each state is an autonomy, and each is the supreme judge of its own laws, except so far as affected by the laws and Constitution of the United States, the superior power of which is granted expre ly in the compact of union. The chief executive is a governor elected by the people for terms of varying length. The legislative body is composed of two houses, an upper and lower, also elected by the people; while the judiciary is selected by varying methods, in some states being elected directly by the people, in others by the legislature, and in still others appointed (in some instances) by the governor. Each state has in the national congre two senators and a number of representatives in the lower house based on the population of the state. The following table shows the basis of representation at different periods, and also the number of representatives to which each state is entitled. In presidential elections each state is entitled to select as many presidential electors as it has national representatives and senators combined. This table thus shows at a glance the representation and electoral vote of each state: Ratio of representation in the United States IMG:content-0211.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0212.png:[ocr errors][merged small][merged small][ocr errors] IMG:content-0213.png:[blocks in formation] state-ball, subst. A ball given by a sovereign or viceroy.