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Senate.
Majlis.
of a vote of “lack of confidence 5 ’, and are liable to impeach
ment.
The Cabinet is collectively responsible for the actions of
each Minister.
The Ministers are executive officials, and have no legisla
tive authority. The provincial governors are appointed by
the Shah on their recommendation.
Proposals for legislation emanating from Shah or Ministers
must be made before the Senate.
The Senate will consist of 60 members, 30 nominated by
the Shah, 15 elected from the city of Tehran and 15 from the
provinces.
It can frame legislative proposals and submit them to the
Majlis. Decrees of the Majlis go to the Senate, which may
suggest amendments for the approval of the Majlis, but have
no power to enforce amendments or reject a decree passed by
the Majlis.
The Senate may not originate financial proposals.
The Legislative power is the Majlis, which will consist of
136 members, “ Vakils Elected representative or attorney, acting in legal matters such as contracting marriage, inheritance, or business; a high-ranking legal official; could also refer to a custodian or administrator. ”. The duration of the Majlis is two
years from the date of its assembly and the presence in Tehran
of not less than 79 members constitutes a quorum. Members
must be Persian male subjects, literate, between 30 and 70
years of age, of good reputation, and Shi’ah Muhammadans
with the exception of one representative for the Armenians
and Chaldseans of Azarbaijan, one for the Southern Armenians,
one for the Zoroastrians, and one for the Jews. Military and
police officials, governors, uncles and brothers and sons of the
reigning Shah, and notorious enemies of the Constitution are
ineligible.
Seats are supposed to be allotted to the provinces on a
rough estimate of 1 seat for every 100,000 of the population,
but actually one seat for every 50,000 would appear nearer
the mark. The distribution of them within this area is included
in the table of provinces at the end of the paragraphs on
Provincial administration, pages 210-225.
Vakils Elected representative or attorney, acting in legal matters such as contracting marriage, inheritance, or business; a high-ranking legal official; could also refer to a custodian or administrator. are elected by universal suffrage of Persian male
citizens of over 20 years of age and 6 months’ residence in the
•electoral area and of good reputation.
The first Majlis 1906-1908 was composed largely of representatives of trade
•guilds and recruited from Tehran. It was elected hurriedly and unsystematically
as a rallying centre against royalist reactionaries. A committee appointed by
Muhammad All Shah in 1909 drew up an electoral law with a system of election
by two degrees. “ The elections are by two degrees, the meaning of which is that
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