英语词汇“elective franchise”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. The right or privilege of voting in public elections, esp. for members of a legislative body; more fully elective franchise.Originally a mere contextual application of sense 2b.

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society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > right to vote at elections > [noun]

suffrage1598

franchise1769

voting right1784

1769 J. Dyson Case of Late Election for County of Middlesex 39 By this means..the franchises of the electors are taken away, which nothing but an act of Parliament can do.

1785 G. Berkeley Danger Violent Innovations in State (ed. 5) 89 In consequence of the extension of commerce, and the removal of restraints on alienation of lands, the elective franchise is, probably enjoyed by fifty times as many persons in England at this day, as it was in the year 1429.

1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 259 It would be too much to tell a man jealous of his equality, that the elector has the same franchise who votes for three members as he who votes for ten.

1819 J. Mackintosh Parl. Suffrage in Wks. (1846) III. 215 The reasons which make it important to liberty, that the elective franchise should be exercised by large bodies of the lower classes.

1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. II. xiii. 379 New boroughs..acquired the franchise of election.

1845 J. R. McCulloch Treat. Taxation i. i. 71 The occupier of a 10l. house has been intrusted with the elective franchise.

1869 G. Rawlinson Man. Anc. Hist. 128 Citizens in a certain sense, but without franchise.

1908 Times 12 Feb. 10/3 A number of woman suffragists attempted to force their way into the House to present a petition in favour of the extension of the franchise to women to the Prime Minister.

1974 Spartanburg (S. Carolina) Herald 25 Apr. a1/6 The black majority has the franchise in tribal homelands under South Africa's race segregation policy.

1992 National Forum 1 Nov. 21/2 Bush has also begun taking on Perot by warning voters not to waste their franchise on someone who cannot win.

2001 V. Prashad Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting iv. 122 MacLeod contended that this disjuncture can be explained by multiple generations of failure among the white families, whereas their black neighbors had only recently won the right to the franchise and to equality.

单词	elective franchise
释义	> as lemmas elective franchise a. The right or privilege of voting in public elections, esp. for members of a legislative body; more fully elective franchise.Originally a mere contextual application of sense 2b. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > right to vote at elections > [noun] suffrage1598 franchise1769 voting right1784 1769 J. Dyson Case of Late Election for County of Middlesex 39 By this means..the franchises of the electors are taken away, which nothing but an act of Parliament can do. 1785 G. Berkeley Danger Violent Innovations in State (ed. 5) 89 In consequence of the extension of commerce, and the removal of restraints on alienation of lands, the elective franchise is, probably enjoyed by fifty times as many persons in England at this day, as it was in the year 1429. 1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 259 It would be too much to tell a man jealous of his equality, that the elector has the same franchise who votes for three members as he who votes for ten. View more context for this quotation 1819 J. Mackintosh Parl. Suffrage in Wks. (1846) III. 215 The reasons which make it important to liberty, that the elective franchise should be exercised by large bodies of the lower classes. 1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. II. xiii. 379 New boroughs..acquired the franchise of election. 1845 J. R. McCulloch Treat. Taxation i. i. 71 The occupier of a 10l. house has been intrusted with the elective franchise. 1869 G. Rawlinson Man. Anc. Hist. 128 Citizens in a certain sense, but without franchise. 1908 Times 12 Feb. 10/3 A number of woman suffragists attempted to force their way into the House to present a petition in favour of the extension of the franchise to women to the Prime Minister. 1974 Spartanburg (S. Carolina) Herald 25 Apr. a1/6 The black majority has the franchise in tribal homelands under South Africa's race segregation policy. 1992 National Forum 1 Nov. 21/2 Bush has also begun taking on Perot by warning voters not to waste their franchise on someone who cannot win. 2001 V. Prashad Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting iv. 122 MacLeod contended that this disjuncture can be explained by multiple generations of failure among the white families, whereas their black neighbors had only recently won the right to the franchise and to equality. extracted from franchisen. < as lemmas
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