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The Republic of Ecuador was constituted May 11, 1830, in consequence of a civil war which separated the members of the original Republic of Colombia, founded by Simon Bolivar, by uniting the Presidency of Quito to the Vice-Royalty of New Grenada, and the Captaincy-General of Venezuela, when they threw off the Spanish yoke. Under the present Constitution, promulgated December 23, 1906, the executive is vested in a President, elected for the term of four years, while the legislative power is given to a Congress of two Houses; the first consisting of thirty-two senators, two for each province (chosen for four years), and the second of 48 deputies, on the basis of one deputy for every 30,000 inhabitants, chosen for two years; both elected by adults who can read and write. The Congress meets on the 10th of August of every year at Quito, the capital, without being summoned by the Government. The election of the President takes place in a direct manner by the people. Under the present constitution there is no election for Vice-President. In case of death, or other cause of vacancy in the office of President, he is replaced (1) by the President of the Senate of the Last Congress, and (2) if he should also fail, by the President of the Chamber of Deputies.
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Statistical and other Books of Reference concerning Ecuador
1. Official Publications
Geografía y Geología del Ecuador, publicado por órden del Supremo Gobierno de la Republica, por Dr. Teodoro Wolf. Leipzic, 1898.
Foreign Office Reports, Annual Series, and Miscellaneous Series. London.
Annual Statement of the Trade of the United Kingdom with Foreign Countries and British Possessions. Imp. London.
Monthly Bulletins of the Bureau of the American Republics, Washington.
2. Non-Official Publications
Alsedo y Herrera (Dionosio), Descripción geográfica de la Real Audiencia de Quito, que escribió Don Dionisio de Alsedo y Herrera. Issued by the Hispanic Society of America. Madrid, 1915.
Cevallos, Compendio del resumen de la historia del Ecuador. Guayaquil, 1885.—Resúmen de la historia del Ecuador. Guayaquil, 1886.—Geografia del Ecuador. Lima, 1888.
Corporation of Foreign Bondholders. Annual Report. London.
El Ecuador (Guia Comercial Agrícola e Industrial de la Republica). Quito. Annual.
Enock (C. R.), Ecuador. London, 1914.
González Suárez, Historia ecclesiastica del Ecuador. Quito, 1881.
Hassamurek (F.), Four Tears among Spanish Americans. 3rd edition. Cincinnati, 1881.
Herrera (P.), Apuntes para la historia de Quito. Quito, 1874.
Kean (A. H.) and Markham (Sir C. R.), Central and South America. Vol. 1. In Stanford’s Compendium.] 2nd ed. London, 1909.
Oviedo y Valdés, Historia de las Indias. Madrid, 1885.
Reiss (W.), and Stübel (A.), Hochgebirge der Republik Ecuador. 3 vols. Berlin, 1892–98.
Steuers (W.), Reise in Peru und Ecuador (1909). Munich, 1914.
Simson (Alfred), Travels in the Wilds of Ecuador. London, 1887.
Stübel (A.), Die Vulkanberge von Ecuador. [Geology and Topography.] Berlin, 1897.
Ternaux-Gompana (L.), Histoire du royaume de Quito. Traduite de l’Espagnol. (Velasco, Historia del reino de Quito.) 2 vols. Paris, 1840.
Whymper (Edward), Travels amongst the Great Andes of the Equator. London, 1892.
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Keltie, J.S., Epstein, M. (1917). Ecuador. In: Keltie, J.S., Epstein, M. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230270466_22
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