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Definition of Electoral system
1. Noun. A legal system for making democratic choices.
Generic synonyms: Legal System
Specialized synonyms: Scrutin Uninomial System, Scrutin Uninominal Voting System, Single-member System, Uninominal System, Uninominal Voting System, List System, Scrutin De Liste, Scrutin De Liste System
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law
Lexicographical Neighbors of Electoral System
Literary usage of Electoral system
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The French Revolution: A Political History, 1789-1804 by François-Alphonse Aulard (1910)
"The electoral system : election of functionaries. —IV. The Legislature: the
Council of Five Hundred and the Council of Elders. — V. The Executive Directory ..."
2. The Governments of Europe by Frederic Austin Ogg (1913)
"CHAPTER XI THE IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT: REICHSTAG, PARTIES, JUDICIARY I. COMPOSITION OF
THE REICHSTAG—electoral system In complete contrast with the ..."
3. Political Science and Comparative Constitutional Law by John William Burgess (1891)
"We all know that, while the form of the electoral system which they created
remains, the substance of it has become completely changed, and that it is from ..."
4. Readings on Parties and Elections in the United States by Chester Lloyd Jones (1912)
"... of the general-ticket system in 1832. . . 1 Dougherty, JH, The electoral system
of the United States. GP Putnam's Sons, New York; Ch. XI, pp. 281-324. ..."
5. History of the Origin of Representative Government in Europe by Guizot (François) (1861)
"Philosophical examination of the electoral system in England In the fourteenth
century—The system was the natural result of facts. ..."
6. A History of the Presidency by Edward Stanwood (1898)
"... THE electoral system THE evolution of the Constitution of forms one of the
most interesting chapters in the history of human government. ..."
7. The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution: An Historical Treatise by Hannis Taylor (1898)
"... constant ac- cession of new freemen that the yeoman class soon came to be
regarded in every shire as the basis of the electoral system.3 , , J .. , , . ..."
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