e basis of population,
territory, and economic conditions."[695] Of the total number of
members, 413 are representatives of Hungary proper and 40 are
delegates of the subordinate kingdom of Croatia, Slavonia, and
Dalmatia. This kingdom possesses its own organs of government,
including a unicameral diet which exercises independent legislative
power in all internal affairs. Its forty deputies take part in the
proceedings at Budapest only when subjects are under consideration
which are of common concern to all of the countries of St. Stephen's
crown, such as questions pertaining to finance, war, communications,
and relations with Austria.[696]

[Footnote 695: Law V. of 1848 concerning the
Election of Representatives, Sec. 5. Dodd, Modern
Constitutions, I., 105.]

[Footnote 696: On the status of the Croatian
kingdom see p. 507.]

The election of deputies is governed by an elaborate statute of
November 10, 1874, by which were perpetuated the fundamentals of the
electoral law of 1848. In respect to procedure, the system was further
amended by a measure of 1899. Qualifications for the exercise of the
suffrage are based on age, property, taxation, profession, official
position, and ancestral privileges. Nominally liberal, they are, in
actual operation, notoriously illiberal. The prescribed age for an
elector is twenty years, indeed, as compared with twenty-four in
Austria; but the qualifications based upon property-holding are so
exacting that they more than offset the liberality therein involved.
These qualifications--too complicated to be enumerated here--vary
according as they arise from capital, industry, occupation, or
property-holding. With slight restrictions, the right to vote is
possessed without regard to property or income, by members of the
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, professors, notaries public, (p. 494)
engineers, surgeons, druggists, graduates of agricultural schools,
foresters, clergymen, chaplains, and teachers. On the other hand,
state officials, soldiers in active service, customs employees, and
the police have no vote; servants, apprenticed workingmen, and
agricultural laborers are carefully excluded; and there are the usual
disqualifications for crime, bankruptcy, guardianship, and deprivation
by judicial process. In an aggregate population of approximately
20,000,000 to-day there are not more than 1