In Connecticut and Rhode Island the governor, council, together with the assembly were chosen annually by popular vote, and all officers were appointed by them.
The members of both houses are elected by popular vote, but Senators usually for a longer time, and frequently higher qualifications for them are required.
The amendment passed the Senate and was adopted in November, 1910, by popular vote.
In the latter state the House has just passed a woman's suffrage amendment; if the Senate passes it, the amendment will be submitted to popular vote.
So long as the government does not ask the women for their consent, it is acting illegally according to the Declaration of Independence.
This new edition takes into account the developments since 1905, contains the recent statistical data, and gives an account of the woman's suffrage movement which has been especially characteristic of these later years.
All postmasters should be elected by popular vote.
It first attempts to secure a cabinet by popular vote.
Cavour was recalled to office in 1860; and at his suggestion, made to Napoleon, the communities just named were allowed to dispose of themselves by popular vote.
He was proclaimed emperor, the election being ratified by popular vote.
One year later, the restoration of the Empire was decreed, and sanctioned by popular vote.
On January, 1874, by popular vote a law was sanctioned reorganizing the whole ecclesiastical affairs of the =Canton Bern=.
The Grand Council by forty-seven votes to forty-six gave it its sanction, notwithstanding the almost unanimous protest of the evangelical synod, and refused to appeal to a popular vote.
Following a three-year postponement, Montenegro held an independence referendum in the spring of 2006 under rules set by the EU.
After World War I, Montenegro was part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and, at the conclusion of World War II, it became a constituent republic of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
Unwillingness in the South to submit the Question to Popular Vote.
The Initiative is a device whereby any person or group of persons may draft a statute, and, on securing the signatures of a certain percentage of the voters, compel the state officials to submit the measure to popular vote.
In all states except New Hampshire the constitution may be amended through legislative action, subsequently ratified by popular vote.
Another common way of amending the state constitution, found in every state except New Hampshire, is through legislative action subsequently ratified by popular vote.
To-day Presidential electors are in every state chosen by popular vote, on a general state-wide ticket.
They did not think proper to submit the whole of this constitution to a popular vote, but they did submit the question whether Kansas should be a free or a slave State to the people.
It is true that the people of Kansas might, if they had pleased, have required the convention to submit the constitution to a popular vote; but this they have not done.
It was never, however, my opinion that, independently of this act, they would have been bound to submit any portion of the constitution to a popular vote in order to give it validity.
Defn: Banishment by popular vote, -- a means adopted at Athens to rid the city of a person whose talent and influence gave umbrage.
Defn: A vote by universal male suffrage; especially, in France, a popular vote, as first sanctioned by the National Constitution of 1791.
Defn: To exile by ostracism; to banish by a popular vote, as at Athens.
The right to approve or reject by popular vote a meassure passed upon by a legislature.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "popular vote" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
