An Appeal to the Canadian Institute on the Rectification of ParliamentCopp, Clark Company, limited, 1892 - 176 páginas |
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Página 44
... districts , it is possible that 32,064 of the majority might be found united in 64 districts against 31,936 of the minority . So that it would be only in the 65th district that the minority could make its voice heard . Nevertheless ...
... districts , it is possible that 32,064 of the majority might be found united in 64 districts against 31,936 of the minority . So that it would be only in the 65th district that the minority could make its voice heard . Nevertheless ...
Página 51
... district elect all the representatives , and the minority none - whereby the minority are unrepresented , and practically disfranchised , have no voice in the government , and no one to represent , advocate or defend , their special ...
... district elect all the representatives , and the minority none - whereby the minority are unrepresented , and practically disfranchised , have no voice in the government , and no one to represent , advocate or defend , their special ...
Página 97
... district . It is therefore provided that an elector may deliver a voting paper containing other names in addition to the one which stands foremost in his preference . His vote would only be counted for one candidate ; but if the object ...
... district . It is therefore provided that an elector may deliver a voting paper containing other names in addition to the one which stands foremost in his preference . His vote would only be counted for one candidate ; but if the object ...
Página 99
... district of the kingdom ; and if every vote that would be given for them in every place could be counted for their election , they might be able to complete the number of the quota . In no other way which it seems possible to suggest ...
... district of the kingdom ; and if every vote that would be given for them in every place could be counted for their election , they might be able to complete the number of the quota . In no other way which it seems possible to suggest ...
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... district more than half Tory threw the balance of its influence in Parliament against the Tory Government , the minority being over - represented and counting as a majority . In the second case the majority had all the members , and the ...
... district more than half Tory threw the balance of its influence in Parliament against the Tory Government , the minority being over - represented and counting as a majority . In the second case the majority had all the members , and the ...
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action affairs appointed assembly ballot papers bill body Canada Canadian cent choice citizens committee compulsory voting constitution contingent votes corruption Council counted cumulative vote delegates deliberative assembly democracy Democrats district system divided division Dominion duty effect election Electoral District Electoral Warden England equal evils Folkething gerrymander give Hare's House of Commons individual influence institutions interests Landsthing leaders legislation legislature less majority means measures members of Parliament ment ministers minority municipal nation nomination number of candidates number of representatives number of votes object obtain opinion opposition Parliament parliamentary party government person political politicians polled popular practical principle proportional representation proposed Province question quota received reform representative electors representative government Republicans result Returning Officer Rigsdag rule Sandford Fleming secure Senate single transferable vote suffrage ticket total number total vote United voters votes cast whole
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Página 150 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.
Página 132 - Parliament is not a congress of Ambassadors from different and hostile interests, which interests each must maintain as an agent and advocate against other agents and advocates, but Parliament is a deliberative Assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole...
Página 19 - I venture to predict, will be the impression of the perfect feasibility of the scheme, and its transcendent advantages. Such and so numerous are these, that, in my conviction, they place Mr. Hare's plan among the very greatest improvements yet made in the theory and practice of government.
Página 27 - The virtue, spirit, and essence of a House of Commons consists in its being the express image of the feelings of the nation. It was not instituted to be a control upon the people, as of late it has been taught, by a doctrine of the most pernicious tendency. It was designed as a control for the people.
Página 82 - New occasions teach new duties ; Time makes ancient good uncouth ; They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth ; Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires! we ourselves must Pilgrims be, Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea, Nor attempt the Future's portal with the Past's blood-rusted key.
Página 145 - AND in order to provide for a representation of the citizens of this Commonwealth, founded upon the principle of equality...
Página 141 - ... *"The purification of politics is an iridescent dream. Government is force. Politics is a battle for supremacy. Parties are the armies. The decalogue and the golden rule have no place in a political campaign.
Página 104 - Now, nothing is more certain than that the virtual blotting-out of the minority is no necessary or natural consequence of freedom; that, far from having any connection with democracy, it is diametrically opposed to the first principle of democracy, representation in proportion to numbers. It is an essential part of democracy that minorities should be adequately represented. No real democracy, nothing but a false show of democracy, is possible without it.
Página 41 - ... nation, though a majority of that portion of it, whom the institutions of the country have erected into a ruling class. If democracy means the certain ascendancy of the majority, there are no means of insuring that, but by) allowing every individual figure to tell equally in the summing up. Any minority left out, either purposely or by the play of the machinery, gives the power not to a majority, but to a minority in some other part of | the scale.
Página 75 - ... the right to vote in person or by proxy the number of shares of stock owned by him for as many persons as there are directors or trustees to be elected, or to cumulate said shares, and give one candidate as many votes as the number of directors multiplied by the number of his shares of stock shall equal, or to distribute them, on the same principle, among as many candidates as he shall think fit...