unelectedun‧e‧lect‧ed /ˌʌnɪˈlektɪd◂/ adjective - the British Parliament's unelected House of Lords
- A randomly selected redistricting committee would leave the real power, again, with unelected staff.
- A small point in a big-city operation, but one more shift of responsibility from elected officials to the unelected bureaucracy.
- All the added power to be granted county government by this charter proposal will accrue to an unelected staff.
- Elected Governments find that they have to share their power with unelected bodies ... Events are seemingly beyond their control.
- However, unelected, time limited, hierarchical agencies have played an important role in central government initiatives to solve social problems.
- In effect, Congress repeatedly gave away a sizable chunk of power to the unelected civil servants who staff federal agencies.
- In other words, an unelected body decides what it will consider.
- We break that trust by handing over power to unelected people without any mechanism for changing their decisions.
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