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The Different Types Of Legislatures

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The different types of legislatures vary from state to state. Professionalism is defined in our Textbook, Governing States and Localities, as the Process of providing legislators with the resources they need to make politics their main career, such as making their positions full time or providing them with full-time staff (Smith and Greenblatt). About 50 percent of states are in between full-time, well paid, and large staffed, and part-time, low pay, and small staffed. While states like California, New York, and Pennsylvania are on the high end in terms of professionalism in legislature, New Hampshire is known as one of the six least professional. In the United States there are 28 Republican-controlled legislatures and 17 Democrat-controlled legislatures, and 5 split legislatures ("Full- and Part-Time Legislatures"). You will soon see that New Hampshire is in the minority amongst the states in having a split legislature. Currently New Hampshire is one of four states with a Democratic Governor, Maggie Hassan, and a split legislature ("2014 State and Legislative Partisan Composition").
The New Hampshire capitol building is in the city Concord. New Hampshire is the 42nd biggest state in terms of population, holding about 1,323,459 people. The state is made up of ten counties with a total area of 9,304 square miles. It was the 9th state added to the Union on June 21, 1788 ("New Hampshire: Facts, Map and State Symbols - EnchantedLearning.com"). Rich in its

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