Minority Or Proportional Representation: Its Nature, Aims, History, Processes, and Practical OperationUnited States Publishing Company, 1872 - 165 pagini |
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... and the Congress and many of the Legislatures and State Conventions of the United States , and is daily rising into general interest and im- portance . SALEM DUTCHER . TABLE OF CONTENTS . PREFACE ..... CHAPTER I. DEFECTS OF iv PREFACE .
... and the Congress and many of the Legislatures and State Conventions of the United States , and is daily rising into general interest and im- portance . SALEM DUTCHER . TABLE OF CONTENTS . PREFACE ..... CHAPTER I. DEFECTS OF iv PREFACE .
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... convention to revise and amend the constitution of the State , it was required that thirty - two of the delegates to be chosen should be elected from the State at large ; no voter to vote for more than sixteen candidates . In this way ...
... convention to revise and amend the constitution of the State , it was required that thirty - two of the delegates to be chosen should be elected from the State at large ; no voter to vote for more than sixteen candidates . In this way ...
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... convention , met to frame a new organic law for that commonwealth . In the instrument adopted by this body May 13th , and ratified by the people on the 2d of the July following , was inserted a clause applying the cumulative vote to ...
... convention , met to frame a new organic law for that commonwealth . In the instrument adopted by this body May 13th , and ratified by the people on the 2d of the July following , was inserted a clause applying the cumulative vote to ...
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... Convention , which met at Charleston , in that State , on the 16th , to revise and amend the State constitution , a resolution looking to the adoption of the cumulative vote for legislative and judicial elections . January 20th , the ...
... Convention , which met at Charleston , in that State , on the 16th , to revise and amend the State constitution , a resolution looking to the adoption of the cumulative vote for legislative and judicial elections . January 20th , the ...
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... convention met at Salt Lake City to frame a constitution under which the territory of Utah might be admitted as a State , and in that instrument applied the cumulative vote to the election of members of the lower house . March 13th , Mr ...
... convention met at Salt Lake City to frame a constitution under which the territory of Utah might be admitted as a State , and in that instrument applied the cumulative vote to the election of members of the lower house . March 13th , Mr ...
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Pagina 92 - Legislature shall provide by law, that in all elections for directors •r or managers of incorporated companies every stockholder shall have the right to vote, in person or by proxy, for the number of shares of stock owned by him, for as many persons as there are directors or managers to be elected...
Pagina 91 - In all elections of representatives aforesaid, each qualified voter may cast as many votes for one candidate as there are representatives to be elected, or may distribute the same, or equal parts thereof, among the candidates, as he shall see fit; and the candidates highest in votes shall be declared elected.
Pagina 127 - I venture to predict, will be the impression of the perfect feasibility of the scheme, and its transcendent advantages. Such and so numerous are these, that, in my conviction, they place Mr. Hare's plan among the very greatest improvements yet made in the theory and practice of government.
Pagina 24 - Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin.
Pagina 85 - ... public notice, as may be provided by law. SEC. 12. In all elections for directors or managers of corporations every stockholder shall have the right to vote, in person or by proxy, the number of shares of stock owned by him for as many persons as there are directors or managers to be elected, or to cumulate said shares and give one candidate as many votes as the number of directors multiplied by the number of his shares of stock shall equal, or to distribute them...
Pagina 90 - ... for as many persons as there are directors or managers to be elected, or to cumulate said shares, and give one candidate as many votes as the number of directors multiplied by the number of his shares of stock, shall equal, or to distribute, them on the same principle among as many candidates as he shall think fit, and such directors shall not be elected in any other manner.
Pagina 102 - At a contested election for any county or borough represented by three members, no person shall vote for more than two candidates.
Pagina 158 - An act to reorganize the local government of the city of New York...
Pagina 85 - The House of Representatives shall consist of three times the number of the members of the Senate, and the term of office shall be two years.
Pagina 20 - That in every case where a State is entitled to more than one Representative, the number to which each State shall be entitled under this apportionment shall be elected by districts composed of contiguous territory equal in number to the number of Representatives to which said State may be entitled, no one district electing more than one Representative.