Talk:List of U.S. state legislatures

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Note: Virginia is red on the map, but should be purple because the Democrats took control of the Virginia Senate, as is correctly noted in the table. Additionally, Mississippi should go from purple to blue.

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List of U.S. state legislatures has had a peer review by Wikipedia editors which is now archived. It may contain ideas you can use to improve this article.

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What needs to be done to make this table about 2/3 of its current width? RickK 23:23, 22 May 2004 (UTC)

You might want to try one of the following:

State	Legislature	State Capital	Lower House			Upper House
			Name	Parties	Yr	Name	Parties	Yr
Alabama	Legislature	Montgomery	House of Representatives	D 65-40	4	Senate	D 25-10	4

Legislature	Capitol	Lower House			Upper House
		Name	Parties	Yr	Name	Parties	Yr
Alabama state Legislature	Montgomery	House of Representatives	D 65-40	4	Senate	D 25-10	4

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[edit] Legislative requirement

The first sentence is "All United States states are required to possess a legislative branch." but I believe this to be inaccurate. The Federal government is the only institution I can think of that could possibly impose such a requirement on all the States, and I think that would have to be stipulated in the Constitution. I've just re-read and searched the Constitution, and found nothing that imposes such a requirement, notwithstanding that many references throughout the document refer to the legislature of the States, assuming that each State has a legislature. So, I'm going to change the sentence to: "Each State in the United States has a legislative branch as part of its form of civil government." JD Lambert^(T|C) 18:12, 8 May 2008 (UTC)