The 1819 State House is the oldest capitol in the nation in which the state's legislative branches meet in their original chambers.

As part of Perth's role as the capital of Western Australia, the state's Parliament and Supreme Court are located within the city, as well as Government House, the residence of the Governor of Western Australia.

Since Representatives are to be " chosen ... by the People ," State Governors are not allowed to appoint temporary replacements when vacancies occur in a state's delegation to the House of Representatives ; instead, the Governor of the state is required by clause 4 to issue a writ of election calling a special election to fill the vacancy.

The Constitution does not fix the size of the House of Representatives ; instead, this clause empowers Congress to determine the size of the House as part of the apportionment process, so long as the size of the House does not exceed 1 member for every 30, 000 of the country's total population and the size of the state's delegation does not exceed 1 for every 30, 000 of the state's population ( although these limits have not been approached since the Founding ).

This compromise had the effect of increasing the political power of slave-holding states by increasing their share of seats in the House of Representatives, and consequently their share in the Electoral College ( where a state's influence over the election of the President is tied to the size of its congressional delegation ).

Delegates to the Philadelphia Convention gave each state a number of presidential electors equal to that state's combined share of House and Senate seats.

Upon its completion in 1741, the Old Colony House at the head of what is now known as Washington Square served as a seat of Rhode Island's government, until the current Rhode Island State House in Providence was completed in 1904 and Providence became the state's sole capital city.

It was named for David Levy, a planter elected in 1841 as the state's territorial delegate to the US House of Representatives, and he served two terms.

Section 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment allows for a state's representation in the House of Representatives to be reduced to the extent that state unconstitutionally denies people the right to vote.

Yell County is Arkansas's 41st county, formed on December 5, 1840 and named after Archibald Yell, who was the state's first member of the United States House of Representatives and the second governor of Arkansas ; he later was killed in combat at the Battle of Buena Vista during the Mexican-American War.

Many of the notable and historic buildings in Fort Payne date from this period of economic growth, including the state's oldest standing theater, the Fort Payne Opera House ; the former factory of the Hardware Manufacturing Company ( today known as the W. B.

Claymont is home to several historic places, including the Claymont Stone School ( which may have been the state's first racially integrated public school ), Archmere Academy ( in the former home of industrialist John J. Raskob ), the Darley House ( former home of illustrator F. O. C. Darley ), and the Robinson House ( with a Block House believed to be the only structure remaining of the original Naaman's Creek settlement ).

The number of representatives each state has in the House is based on each state's population as determined in the most recent United States Census.

In the elections of 1874 and 1876, Pinchback was elected to the U. S. House of Representatives and then the U. S. Senate respectively ; he was the state's first African-American representative to Congress.

In 1783 he was elected to the Massachusetts General Court ( the state's House of Representatives ).

Statements of support for Khodorkovsky and criticism of the state's persecution have been passed by the Italian Parliament, the German Bundestag, and the U. S. House of Representatives, among many other official bodies.

He also served in the state's House of Representatives.

The state's legislative branch is styled the General Assembly and consists of a 47-member Senate and a 141-member House of Delegates.

Recent efforts that have received such recognition include a series of stories that resulted in the resignation and criminal conviction of the state House of Delegates education chairman, a series on the environmental effects of mountaintop removal coal mining, a series on the state's " failed " attempts to deal with its residents suffering from mental illness, and a series on the deaths nationwide from the widespread use of methadone.

Unlike the House of Delegates, the Senate has the sole responsibility in the state's legislative branch for confirming gubernatorial appointees to positions that require confirmation.

) When the new state government was created in 1776, Lewis was elected to the state's House of Delegates.

It was named for the Florida manatee ( commonly called a " sea cow " though it is distantly related to the elephant ), which is endangered and the state's official marine mammal.

It was named after Elisha P. Ferry, the state's first governor.

It was named for William Cocke, one of the state's first United States Senators.

It was named for Willie Jones, a Revolutionary leader and president of the North Carolina Council of Safety ; he was later the state's chief opponent of ratification of the United States Constitution He was also a plantation slave owner.

It was the 54th county established in Illinois and was named after Daniel Cook, one of the earliest and youngest statesmen in Illinois history, who served as the second U. S. Representative from Illinois and the state's first Attorney General.

The state's fifty-ninth county was named in honor of the noted Georgia lawyer Stephen Upson ( 1784 / 5-1824 ) just four months after his death.

Woodruff County is Arkansas's 54th county, formed on November 26, 1862, and named for William E. Woodruff, founder of the state's first newspaper, the Arkansas Gazette.

Nevada County is Arkansas's 63rd county, formed on March 20, 1871, and named after the state of Nevada because of the perceived similarity between their physical shapes ; the Arkansas county's shape roughly follows the same outline as the state's boundary when inverted.

The Arkansas General Assembly defined the state's 64th county on March 22, 1871, and named it Sarber County for John N. Sarber, the Republican state senator from Yell County who had introduced the resolution.

The first of the state's 75 present-day counties to be created, Arkansas County was formed on 13 December 1813 and is named after the Arkansas Indian tribe.

It is named after the state's first governor, Stevens T. Mason.

In 2008 South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford named Andrews Cook Middle School as the recipient of the state's Best Special Education School Award.

They named the town Cuney, after Price's son, Cuney Price – who in turn had been named for Norris Wright Cuney, a prominent black politician and head of the state's Republican Party.

He was the named plaintiff in the 1990 U. S. Supreme Court case Perpich v. Department of Defense, which established that the U. S. Department of Defense could send National Guard units overseas even over the protests of the state's governor.

The change brings Salt Lake baseball back to its original franchise name and look when the state's first Pacific Coast League team was named the Bees in 1915.

The state's largest university and a major secondary school in Fremantle are named after him, and his statue stands in Kings Square near the Fremantle Town Hall.

It was chartered in 1835 and named after James Edward Oglethorpe, the state's founder.

He was named as the state's Attorney General in 1780, and served until 1791.

They were concerned about the state's direction and the fact that no institution in Michigan was developing policy ideas that harnessed the benefits of our free enterprise system .” This group formed what ultimately became the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, so named after Mackinac Island, which is considered to be an iconic Michigan image.

The major accomplishments of his second term were enforcing the integration of the state's public schools and establishing a medical school at the University of Kentucky which was later named the Chandler Medical Center in his honor.

A post office was established in the area in 1909 and named " Rowe " after Henry S. Rowe, a mayor of Portland, Oregon who was interested in developing the state's scenic attractions.

In February 1776, South Carolina President John Rutledge named him a brigadier general in charge of the state's military forces.