As soon as it shall become evident, that no amicable determination of the manner of voting can take place, the Tiers-Etat will send an invitation to the two other orders, to come and take their places in the common chamber.
The question of voting by persons or orders is the most controverted; but even that seems to have gained already a majority among the Nobles.
Those whose powers are too limited, may decline voting until new powers are procured.
Among the Commons, there is an entire unanimity on the great question of voting by persons.
Great hopes have been formed, that these would concur with the Tiers-Etat, in voting by persons.
The nobility of and about Paris have come over, as was expected, to the side of the people, in the great question of voting by persons or orders.
An old popular grievance, the viva voce method of voting at parliamentary elections, was done away and the secret ballot substituted (1872), a change which struck a heavy blow at the prevalent bribery and intimidation.
Meantime the distribution of the voting population had been totally transformed.
A little later he proved to the House the corruption existing at Gram-pound, and secured the disfranchisement of that borough and the transfer of its voting rights to the great county of York.
He was opposed to an insistence on the power of voting the budget claimed by the Chamber of Notables, and he retired so as not to be compromised.
During the campaign of 1848, as a youth of sixteen, I took the liberty of breaking from the paternal party; my father voting for General Taylor, I hurrahing for Martin Van Buren.
In spite of these mob hysterics, the Independents persisted to the last in supporting Mr. Edmunds for the first place, but in voting for the second place they separated.
Immediately the whole house rose to this sentiment again and again, with even greater evidence of approval than before; the voting began and Mr. Conkling was finally nominated, if my memory is correct, by a majority of three.
Catholics and Protestants met together in friendly converse, and the voting went anyhow, both religions on both sides, according to each man's opinion of the business.
He thinks that in voting against the priest he would be voting against God, and his religion compels him to conscientiously vote against his conscience, if any.
Nowadays, wherever in Ireland the two sects are represented the thing is worked differently, and you may know the voting beforehand by reference to the members' religion.
They voted as the priests told them to vote, without the smallest conception of what they were voting for, without the smallest idea of what Home Rule really means.
Give us compulsory sale and compulsory purchase, at a fair price, and you will find the farmers nearly all voting against Home Rule.
This is the true explanation of the fearful illiteracy of Donegal, as revealed by the voting papers.
In 1886 he said, 'I will not be a party to giving Ireland a legislative body to manage Irish concerns and at the same time have Irish members in London acting and voting on English and Scottish concerns.
For of course, they can always exert a preponderating influence in British affairs, holding as they do the balance of voting power.
James Guerin has no confidence in the secrecy of illiterate voting, for after voting in the presence of a priest he had to jump a wall and hide in a wood to escape the vengeance of the people.
Such, according to an expert, are the men who now manipulate the voting powers of the Irish people.
Yet voting was a little new to them, and possibly that was how this mistake occurred.
No, if you never heard of voting the bonds you certainly haven't kept very close tab on affairs in this Strip.
My friends here can tell you how I managed voting the bonds at a little town east of here.
A great majority of the boroughmongers, of course, acquitted the duke from these charges, and talked of voting an address of thanks to him for the manner in which he discharged his official duties.
The highest authority of the association is the General Assembly, in which every member possesses the same voting power, active and passive.
The patricians occupied all offices, supported alone the burden of war, and consequently had alone the right of voting in the assemblies.
The negro has been accused of voting for money, but it is doubtful if as a race, he is any more prone to this practice than his white fellow citizens among whom this abuse seems to be growing.
In many southern states the negroes is prevented from voting by local regulations, in Boyd County colored people go to the polls and vote just like anyone else.
He would never have exercised his right to vote if voting had involved postponing dinner.
While voting and speaking against a tax on cotton, Mr. Sumner was anxious to tax Slavery, and this he sought to accomplish by a tax on those who pretended to hold slaves.
Had I been able to speak earlier, I should have spoken; but, though present in the Chamber, and voting when this bill was under consideration formerly, I was at the time too much of an invalid to take an active part in the debate.
Thus, much debate was spent on how votingqualifications should be regulated, and whether the old county court should be abolished or not.
And it was just at this juncture, with one hour of voting left, that Mr. Smith emerged from his committee rooms and turned his voters on the town, much as the Duke of Wellington sent the whole line to the charge at Waterloo.
To Mr. Smith's mind, voting was to be conducted on the same plan as bear-shooting.
If their judgment of these questions tells them that there is something in it for them in voting Liberal, then they do so.
Everybody keeps looking in at the different polling places to see if anybody else has voted yet, because, of course, nobody cares to vote first for fear of being fooled after all and voting on the wrong side.
There is something irresistibly funny about predestination; about men who are striving and learning and soberly voting upon measures with which they have as little to do as guinea-pigs.
So it's here ye are, after voting to walk out of the shops just when we're beginning to turn out the machines for the soldiers!
It was unfortunate, he went on, but true, that the vast majority of people of voting age in the United States to-day who thought they had been educated were under the obligation to reeducate themselves.
Do you remember how I pulled off old Senator Matthews when everybody swore he was dead set on voting for an investigation in the matter of those coal lands Mr. Parr got hold of in his state?
He also wrote against bribery at elections, and in favor of voting by ballot, being the first English advocate of that measure.
The same month of the Conference, Mr. Sharman Crawford, a judicious friend of the non-voting millions, divided the House of Commons on a motion in favor of complete suffrage.
William Vernon,[84] son of the Archbishop of York, voting in the minority.
Finally the October Assembly enacted the strictest and most democratic voting law ever made in Virginia.
This act seems to have continued in effect until 1655 when the Assembly prohibited freemen from voting unless they were also householders.
He has not had time to change his riding attire, but he is here in time to join me in voting for independence.
Mr. President, before voting on this motion, I wish to have the paragraph on slavery read again.
But James Wilson who has been opposed to Independence bows to the will of the people and joins John Morton and myself in voting for Independence.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "voting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
