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Excerpt from Proceedings of the American Political Science Association: At Its Second Annual Meeting Held at Baltimore, MD., December 26 to 29, 1905 Article I. Name. This Association shall be known as the American Political Science Association. Article II. Object. The encouragement of the scientific study of Politics, Public Law, Administration and Diplomacy. The Association as such will not assume a partisan position upon any question of practical politics, nor commit its members to any position thereupon. Article III. Membership. Any person may become a member of this Association upon payment of Three Dollars, and after the first year may continue such by paying an annual fee of Three Dollars. By a single payment of Fifty Dollars any person may become a life member, exempt from annual dues. Each member will be entitled to a copy of all the publications of the Association issued during his or her membership. Article IV. Officers. The officers of this Association shall consist of a President, three Vice-Presidents, a Secretary, and a Treasurer, who shall be elected annually, and of an Executive Council consisting ex-officio of the officers above mentioned and ten elected members, whose term of office shall be two years, except that of those selected at the first election, five shall serve for but one year. All officers shall be nominated by a Nomination Committee composed of five members appointed by the Executive Council, except that the officers for the first year shall be nominated by a committee of three to be appointed by the chairman of the meeting at which this Constitution is adopted. All officers shall be elected by a majority vote of the members of the Association present at the meeting at which the elections are had. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.