| 单词 | general ticket |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgeneral ticket general ticket n. U.S. the system by which the whole list of candidates for the representation, e.g. of a state or city, is voted upon by the undivided body of electors; cf. scrutin de liste n. at scrutin n. Compounds. ΚΠ 1776 Proposed Plan Govt. Pennsylvania 4 They shall vote for all the Members for the Assembly in one general ticket out of the Country at large. 1800 T. Jefferson Writings (1893–9) VII. 401 On the subject of an election by a general ticket, or by districts, most persons..seem to have made up their minds. 1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. I. xxv. 385 The presidential electors being now chosen, in each State, by ‘general ticket’, not in districts. 1940 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 34 899 Because a general ticket is employed—e.g., each viscount writes in sixty-six names on his ballot—an organized majority can completely exclude minority candidates. 1989 Jrnl. Amer. Hist. 76 87 By producing a winner-take-all result, the general ticket transformed a state into the functional equivalent of a single-member district. general ticket general ticket, a list of candidates put forward for a state or other large political division, equal in number to the entire representation to which the division is entitled, but not chosen to represent each local subdivision. mixed ticket, scratch ticket, split ticket, straight ticket: see quot. 1859.extracted from ticketn.1< as lemmas |
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