In addition to electing these and other officers, the town meeting enacts legislation with regard to such local matters as bridges, roads, and schools.
The most notorious phase of this problem has grown out of our custom of electing one national Representative from each of the congressional districts into which every state is divided.
Would a single presidential term of six years be preferable to the present custom of electing a President for not more than two four-year terms?
For the purpose of electing members of the state legislature, practically all of the states are divided into numerous senatorial and representative election districts.
In these areas it is used for the purpose of nominating candidates for local offices, and for the purpose of electing delegates to nominating conventions.
Usually the settlers grouped themselves in small, compact communities known as towns, the freemen coming together in the town meeting for the purpose of passing laws and electing officials.
I say, Sir, that there are countries in which the condition of the labouring classes is such that they may safely be intrusted with the right of electing Members of the Legislature.
Defn: Having the right of electing one's self, or, as a body, of electingits own members.
The form of government in this province, as in all the rest, is based upon the example of that of Buenos Ayres; consisting of a popular assembly, which has the power of electing the Governor.
They are to be the same who exercise the right in every State of electing the corresponding branch of the legislature of the State.
The Mode ofElecting the President From The Independent Journal.
An open plain outside the walls of Rome, where the Roman youths performed their gymnastic and warlike exercises, and where the Roman people met for the purpose of electing magistrates.
On February 27 the Nan-king Assembly endorsed this decision by electing Yuan president, and he was formally installed on March 10.
In hatred and suspicion of all connected with the minion, the English soldiers rose against the foreigner, threw him into a dungeon, and, electing a fresh captain, made oath to hold out to the last.
The right of the people can be shown, in Hotman's opinion, to extend even to deposing the monarch and electing his successor.
Thus highly did Bodoeri extol Falieri's virtues; and he had a ready answer for all objections, so that at length all voices were unanimous in electing Falieri.
Let me then thank you all from my heart, since in electing me to be your president and 'Candle-master' you have wiped out an old debt.
The Droop quota, being smaller than the Tasmanian quota, would have the effect of electing more members on full quotas, and it is often recommended on that account.
But before electing the magistrates let us stop a little and say a word in season about the election of them.
Nor could senators elect members of their own body; the censors alone had the right of electing from the ex-magistrates, and of excluding such as were unworthy.
By governing class, I do not merely mean the legislative bodies, but I include the electing body, who are of course equally guilty when they clamour for what they deem their own peculiar interest, instead of calling for just laws.
Each strives to keep studiously in the background any points of difference between himself and the electing body.
To the people he gave the privilege of electing the senators, and giving their sanction to those laws which the kings and senate should approve.
It knows very well that a man has often been to war, and that he has gained such and such victories, and it is therefore very capable of electing a general.
At the close of the campaign, also, the benefits of a protective tariff were urged as a reason forelecting Hughes.
Ingersoll declared that each party would like to beat the other without electing its own candidates.
Others relate, that prevailing against the Moors, he made a Feast in Honour of the blessed Virgin, at which he instituted this Order, electing his Brothers and Sons among the first Knights.
He now, on examination of the bill of 1678, perceived that, though it forbade any Roman Catholic from taking a seat in either House of Parliament, it contained no prohibition to prevent any constituency from electing him its representative.
And the perpetuity of this mismanagement was in most instances secured by the members of the corporation themselves electing their new colleagues on the occasion of any vacancy.
The natural consequence of this provision is, that the manner of electing trustees and directors varies in different companies.
It leaves it to the promoters to state the mode and manner in which the corporate powers shall be exercised, and the manner of electing trustees, or directors, and officers.
Ruef had, as early as 1904, secured a hold on the State Legislature, by putting up and electing a Union Labor party legislative ticket.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "electing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
