An Electoral Districts Act redistributed the electorates of the colony, and increased the number of members of the Assembly from 43 to 55.
Another measure provided for the holding of the first Commonwealth elections, and for the temporary division of the State into nine electorates for the House of Representatives election.
L200 per annum, and in addition payment of travelling expenses to and from electorates once a year at the rate of 1s.
The votes of the three ecclesiastical electorates were for him, Saxony was favourable to him, Brandenburg made no opposition, and a decided majority declared him Emperor in 1619.
As to the first contention, it is the party which has the support of a majority of the whole people which should rule; and the excluded minority in some of the electorates belongs to this party.
Whatever may be the arguments by which the disparity between the size of town and country electorates be supported in local affairs, surely they cannot apply where national issues only are at stake.
But Professor Nanson proposes such large electorates that any small section, from one-sixth to one-twelfth, can secure independent representation.
Mr. M'Cay's conclusion that proportional representation can only be used in electorates returning an odd number of representatives is shown to be entirely unwarranted.
Electorates to be grouped so as to contain at least three seats, and preferably not less than five seats nor more than twenty seats.
The present system of single-membered electorates will not suffice.
He proposed thatelectorates should be enlarged, and that each party should nominate a list of candidates equal to the number required to be elected, and should place them in order of preference.
And yet the only effect of limiting the size of the electorates is to reduce the number of undesirable ways in which electors might group themselves.
With enlarged or grouped electorates the periodical revision of boundaries would be entirely obviated, because the size of the electorate may be kept constant, and the number of representatives varied.
On the other hand, if it splits up its votes in each electorate, or even only in thoseelectorates where it has a majority, it may secure none at all.
In Switzerland, however, the electoratesare made to contain sometimes as many as 30 seats.
If the electorates are small, and the number of parties large, accurate proportional representation is quite out of the question.
In each of these cases the electorates are small, and the electors possess special qualifications.
The majorities throughout the United Kingdom which would be obtained under a scheme of equal electorates are shown in column K.
Nor will the electorates themselves learn that the remedy for their sufferings rests in their own hands.
It is in the workshops of actual experience alone that electorates will acquire the art of self-government, however highly educated they may be.
New kingdoms were erected, electorates created and extinguished, the lesser princes mediatized, the free cities occupied by troops and bestowed on some neighbouring potentate.
In August, a treaty of union and defensive alliance between the electorates of Saxony and Hanover was executed at Dresden.
The French were almost entire masters of the three ecclesiastical electorates of Germany.
This is what explains their insistence upon separate electorates wherever the elective principle comes into play in the composition of representative bodies.
The scheme gives no vital power to the electorates or their representatives.
In the case of any community for which separate special electorates may be deemed at present necessary, participation in the general territorial electorates, whether as voters or candidates, should not be permitted.
The franchise should be so sanction of the broad and the electorates so Governor-General.
For the purpose of legislation the Council consists of all Executive members with 60 additional members, of whom only 27 are elected by specified electorates by a method of indirect election.
Other claims for separate electorates are not conceded.
It is on the side of the Ecclesiastical Electorates that the dikes raised to support the German liberty first will give way.
It is in these Electorates that the first impressions of France are likely to be made; and if they succeed, it is over with the Germanic body, as it stands at present.
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