of the voters called for an election, and if a majority voted
against him, he was removed from office and the Minister of State
assumed the Presidency for the remainder of the term. The Cabinet was
composed of fourteen members-seven men and seven women-and were chosen
by the Parliament, who were free to select them from their own members
or outsiders, provided that the person chosen was a voter and
twenty-five years of age. When the Parliament met, which it did on the
first day of January, and adjourned on the first of March, sine die, the
Ministers presented their reports of their work for the previous two
years, and if the Parliament approved them, they continued in office;
but if the Parliament by a majority vote disapproved of any of them,
then the Minister resigned and the Parliament appointed another person
to take his or her place. The members of Parliament were elected for two
years and to serve without pay, but their expenses were paid by the
Government and the amount necessary was fixed by law and could not be
raised or lowered, only by two-thirds vote of the qualified voters of
the Nation. The country was divided into districts and every district
elected a member for every hundred thousand of population, provided that
every other member from a district should be a female, thus giving both
sexes full representation in the Government.
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