But the majority ofvoters is always changing and always losing its power.
These seven men are elected for a fixed term of three years, out of the ranks of the whole body of voters throughout the country, by the two Houses, united in joint session.
On his own principles laid down elsewhere, Rousseau would have to admit that it proves nothing of the sort, except in so far as the other voters have been guided by the general interest.
If the question, slavery or no slavery, could be fairly presented for the decision of the legal voters of North Carolina at the next popular election, we believe at least two-thirds of them would deposite the no slavery ticket.
Pending the last Presidential election, there were thousands, nay, tens of thousands of voters in the Slave States, who desired to give their suffrages for the Republican nominee, John C.
No greater method of public safety can be imagined than for the American family to "size up" the American public man, and then have the voters of that family sustain or reject him at the polls, according to the verdict of the household.
These firesides are the hives whence the voters swarm to the polls.
I think he brought me near twenty voters of one species or another.
In Ireland, on the contrary, the divisions were public, and red and black lists were immediately published of the voters on every important occasion.
Somebody on his behalf, an attorney, intimated to the solicitor for Mr. Jollefat that it would be cheaper to "square" Fipps than to submit to the game process all the voters and their actions.
We had expected to find him leading a body of voters to the hustings for the Tories.
For the purposes of this Act a woman shall not be disqualified by marriage for being registered as a voter, provided that a husband and wife shall not both be registered as votersin the same Parliamentary borough or county division.
I would say to women, 'You have a constitutional means of getting redress for your grievances; use your votes, convince your fellow-voters of the righteousness of your demands.
So we went to Cockermouth and told the voters how the Liberal party had fulfilled its pledges of democracy and lived up to its avowed belief in the rights of all the people.
We call upon allvoters to vote against Liberal candidates until the Liberal Government does justice to women.
They appealed to the voters to return them, as advocates and upholders of true democracy, and they promised that there should be a Government united in favour of people's rights against the powers of a privileged aristocracy.
His own idea was to amend the bill to give a vote to wives of all electors--making married women voters in virtue of their husband's qualification.
We held meetings twice a day, calling upon the voters to "beat the Government in Mid-Devon, as a message that women must have votes next year.
We also asked the Prime Minister if he intended to include the registration of qualified women voters in the provisions of the plural voting bill, then under consideration.
In fact, most plural voters had but two votes, one for their residence and one for their place of business or their University, and agriculture, commerce, and industry should be adequately represented.
It was stated that the deadlock arose over the exclusion of Fermanagh and Tyrone, and especially as to whether Tyrone, in which the Nationalist voters were slightly the more numerous, should be allowed to vote itself out by "a bare majority.
The regulations respecting the election of voters and those entitled to vote were carefully laid down, and the oath to be taken by the voters as well as that to be made by the governor-elect is prescribed.
The voters had to take an oath before the election, the governors and spokesman at election.
All day long my voters had to submit to insults and assaults, committed upon them by the bludgeon-men, who had increased their numbers to eight hundred.
They will say, perhaps, that the money is intended for the purpose of carrying down the London voters, and for that of fetching voters from elsewhere; but, why are they afraid to put their trust in the resident voters of Bristol?
In these small districts it was possible for all the citizens to meet frequently, and in an annual assembly the voters of the community elected their officers and adopted the necessary local regulations.
There are, however, thousands of voters who continue to vote the straight Democratic ticket, believing that the party stands for the same principles as it did when their fathers first voted.
It must be evident to every thinking man or woman, that a nation whose political destinies are in the hands of the people with their almost universal franchise should be made up of voters who are alive and thinking.
The church iron wheel organized a solid mass of ignorant negro voters on one side of the Southern ballot box.
This necessitated a "solid South" of white voters on the other side.
So, too, we are told that American Negroes can have done for them by other voters all that they could possibly do for themselves with the ballot and much more because the white voters are more intelligent.
Such possible voters must be regarded, not as sharers of a limited treasure, but as sources of new national wisdom and strength.
The desire of the committee was to extend the voting privilege as far as possible consistently with due regard for the principle that the voters ought to be men of substance enough to insure their independence.
By the changes that the Bill proposed to make no less than half a million of new voters were to be created throughout Great Britain and Ireland.
Communication between voters and representatives has thus become more direct than ever before, and the Member of Parliament is now completely subject to the authority of those whom he is supposed to govern.
Many meetings were also held of the freehold voters of the different counties, who were at this time almost the only independent voters in the country.
In plain English, we may have to disfranchise the coloured voters of Cape Colony, shut up their schools and churches, and reduce them to slavery.
If every man ought to have a vote, he must be allowed to exercise it as soon as he becomes entitled to it, and therefore Parliament must be dissolved every year in order to permit the new voters to express their wishes.
I am assuming, as everyone in Washington does, that the farm bloc is only a forerunner of other similar political efforts, for every economic interest which is organized among the voters may extend itself vertically into Congress.
Indispensable to effective special interest representation seems to be an organization for other than political purposes which brings the votersof a class or occupation together.
He has a perfect card catalogue of nearly all the voters of Kansas.
Second, in a democracy the press and public men had to flatter the mass of voters and readers by declaring on every possible occasion that wisdom reposed in their breasts.
If there were a positive principle upon which a majority of the voters would agree the existing parties would grab for it.
The only nexus there could be between the executive and the mass of voters was personal.
By its last vote Tennessee proved that there are at least forty thousand voters in the state who are attached to the United States government.
I tell you, gentlemen, that, while I believe there are enough honest voters in the city council to prevent the Cowperwood crowd from passing this bill over my veto, yet I don't think the matter ought to be allowed to go that far.
If the dominant party, at the behest of so sinister an influence as Cowperwood, was to tie up all outside traction legislation, there could be but one thing left--an appeal to the voters of the city to turn the rascals out.
If one-half the voters should ask me not to do it I wouldn't do it.
A son of a former Prime Minister who had already taken so strong a part in politics as to have severed himself from his father, not prepared to address the voters of a borough whom he had come to canvass!
Another memorandum--or rather two, one as to the slang, and another as to the expediency of teaching something to the poor voters on such occasions.
Politics) For voters concerned predominantly by a single issue, the question of whether a candidate is for or against their position on that issue.
A body of constituents, as the body of citizens or votersin a representative district.
The following letter was written on receiving a request from a committee of colored voters for advice as to their action at the presidential election of 1872.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "voters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
