Minority Or Proportional Representation: Its Nature, Aims, History, Processes, and Practical OperationUnited States Publishing Company, 1872 - 165 pagini |
Din interiorul cărții
Rezultatele 1 - 5 din 79
Pagina 9
... majority in his district , has a very remote prospect of an election . The main incidents of the present electoral system are there- fore : I. The non - representation of minorities ; II . The unfair apportionment of representatives to ...
... majority in his district , has a very remote prospect of an election . The main incidents of the present electoral system are there- fore : I. The non - representation of minorities ; II . The unfair apportionment of representatives to ...
Pagina 11
... majority in their electoral district , are now , in Parliamentary elections , outvoted and left without representatives , cannot ordinarily be taken at less than two - fifths of the whole electoral body , or 400,000 out of 1,000,000 ...
... majority in their electoral district , are now , in Parliamentary elections , outvoted and left without representatives , cannot ordinarily be taken at less than two - fifths of the whole electoral body , or 400,000 out of 1,000,000 ...
Pagina 19
... majority . Sometimes the majority has exceeded twelve thousand . are about ten thousand Democratic voters in my district , and they have been voting there for the last forty years , without any more hope of having a Representative on ...
... majority . Sometimes the majority has exceeded twelve thousand . are about ten thousand Democratic voters in my district , and they have been voting there for the last forty years , without any more hope of having a Representative on ...
Pagina 20
... majority party in the State , no matter by how small a vote in the majority , secured all the representatives , and the minority party , no matter how nearly equal in numbers to the majority , had none . The disfranchisement of the ...
... majority party in the State , no matter by how small a vote in the majority , secured all the representatives , and the minority party , no matter how nearly equal in numbers to the majority , had none . The disfranchisement of the ...
Pagina 21
... majority in the Congressional elections of 1870-1 secured all the Representatives , and in eleven of the remaining twenty - nine States the majority elects more and the minority fewer Representatives than are proportionately due . The ...
... majority in the Congressional elections of 1870-1 secured all the Representatives , and in eleven of the remaining twenty - nine States the majority elects more and the minority fewer Representatives than are proportionately due . The ...
Alte ediții - Afișează-le pe toate
Minority Or Proportional Representation: Its Nature, Aims, History ... Salem Dutcher Vizualizare completă - 1872 |
Termeni și expresii frecvente
adopted aldermen amendment applying the cumulative apportionment of representatives Assembly ballots bers bill borough Buckalew chosen committee constituency contested Convention counted cumulative system cumulative vote debate declared elected delegates Democratic directors disfranchised district divided elec election of representatives electoral system England entitled existing electoral system favor five Forty-first free vote gerrymander give Hare House of Commons Illinois John Stuart Mill lative Legislature Liberals limited vote majority minority representation nominate number of members number of persons number of Representatives number of votes officers opinions Parliament party Pennsylvania political poll practice preferential vote present electoral system principle Proportional Representation proposed proposition quota quotient received repre Republican result Rigsraad rule second choice secure Senate South Carolina subject of Minority suffrage Thomas Hare three candidates ticket tion tive Tory United unrepresented vacancies voters votes cast voting-papers Walter Morrison whole number York
Pasaje populare
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.