ectors chosen by all citizens who are entitled (p. 563)
to vote for members of the Folkething, in the ratio of one elector for
every 120 voters or major fraction thereof, and (2) an equal number of
electors chosen by the voters who, during the preceding year, have
been assessed upon a taxable income of not less than 2,000
rix-dollars. The members elected from the rural districts and towns
are chosen indirectly, after a manner analogous to that in operation
in the capital.[793] The result is a very successful combination of
the principles of indirect popular election and indirect
representation of property. In all cases the election of members takes
place according to the principles of proportional representation.[794]
Every person eligible to the Folkething is eligible to the Landsthing,
provided he has resided in his electoral circle, or district, during
the year preceding his election.

[Footnote 792: Art. 34. Dodd, Modern Constitutions,
I., 272. The status of the Faroee Islands is that of
an integral portion of the kingdom, not that of a
dependency. It is analogous to the status of
Algeria in the French Republic. No other outlying
Danish territory is represented in the Rigsdag.]

[Footnote 793: For details see Art. 37 of the
constitution. Dodd, Modern Constitutions, I., 272.]

[Footnote 794: It is of interest to observe that
Denmark was the first nation to make use of a
system of proportional representation. The
principle was introduced originally as early as
1855, in the constitution promulgated in that year,
and it was retained through the constitutional
changes of 1863 and 1866, although its application
was restricted to the election of members of the
upper chamber. An account of its introduction is
contained in La representation proportionnelle
(Paris, 1888), published by the French Society for
the Study of Proportional Representation.]

*619. The Folkething.*--The Folkething is composed of deputies chosen
directly by manhood suffrage for a term of three years. By the
constitution it is stipulated that as nearly as practicable there
s