What is "electing"

Usage examples of "electing".

The Legislature completed its work by electing two consistent Union men, David T.

An interesting and important case, relating to the mode of electing United-States senators, came up for decision at this session and led to a prolonged debate, which was accompanied with much personal feeling and no little acrimony.

The appeal was to be made to the same constituency which two years before had chosen him to the Vice-Presidency,--augmented by the vote of Tennessee, now once more authorized to take part in electing the representatives of the nation.

It is not at all probable that any political party will succeed in time of peace, upon financial and industrial issues, in electing two-thirds of the Senate and two-thirds of the House of Representatives.

In 1879 the lost ground was in large part regained, but the party, while electing the Legislature, was again outnumbered on the popular vote.

Clay would have been to prevent the extension of slavery, could the act of electing have been evil?

But since there was no fixed law on the subject, and since the whole probable result of their action would be an assistance in electing Gen.

Democratic party for the purpose of electing a Republican Senator in my place are just as much the agents and tools of the supporters of Mr.

A secret organization called Americans, or Know-Nothings, swept the Commonwealth like a wave, electing all the State officers, and, with scarcely an exception, the entire Legislature.

But I think the old method of electing Senators, where it was necessary that a man should have a reputation through an entire county to be chosen, to be better than the system of electing them by small single districts, and I think the slight property qualification was highly useful as a stimulant to saving and economy.

There was also, as an incident of this struggle, an angry contest in the joint convention of the two Houses held for the purpose of electing some officers required by the Constitution to be chosen by joint ballot.

The Democrats had succeeded in electing their President pro tempore, whom the Republicans could not displace, and there was left before the body a struggle for the organization of the Senate, including the executive officers and the Committees, in which no progress could be made without Mr.

The matter was very much discussed in the campaign for electing members of the House of Representatives in the autumn of 1902.

This party swept Massachusetts, electing all the State officers and every member of the State Legislature except two from the town of Northampton.

The accompanying diagram most clearly shows the nature of each magistracy, its seniority, who did the electing, and whether a magistrate owned imperium.