elector
suomi-englanti sanakirjaelector englannista suomeksi
äänestäjä, valitsijamies
Substantiivi
elector englanniksi
Elector
A person eligible to vote in an election; a member of an electorate, a voter.
(RQ:Federalist)
(RQ:Paine Rights of Man)
(quote-book) P. C. Croft|year=1793|page=7|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=cMNbAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA7|oclc=10517345|passage=In the courſe of not many years muſt the electours of one place grapple in the waves for their town, and at preſent a ſeptennial conſequence is given to a heap of ruins.
(RQ:Tocqueville Democracy)
A person eligible to vote to elect a of Parliament.
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=(...) Booksellers of London and Westminster|year=1701|oclc=723416682|passage=I Think this Letter, which was ſent to me by my Electors, worth printing, becauſe as it has convinced me, it may convince others.
(quote-book) Rouse, Kirkby, and Lawrence; and sold by (...) Messrs. Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy,(nb...)|year=1818|page=8|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=qUYVAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA8|oclc=54585586|passage=The constitutional right of the Electors to exact pledges, from Candidates who are soliciting the honour of representing the nation in Parliament, has been frequently agitated, and as loudly contended for as manfully resisted, at different periods of effervescence; ...
(quote-journal) St. Clements Press(nb...)|date=23 May 1919|volume=XV|issue=420|page=481|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ge1EAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA481|oclc=783923453|passage=India is to have a new Constitution, under which certain limited powers will be assigned to elected representatives. ... Who, then, are to be the electors in rural constituencies? Only a few general statements can be made on this point. Women must wait, and, in the country at least, they will not mind; there is to be no literacy test, but military service will very properly qualify.
A member of an college; specifically an official selected by a state as a member of the College to elect the president and president of the States.
(quote-web)&93;|work=The Constitution of the United States: A Transcription|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20200101114821/https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript|archivedate=1 January 2020|location=Washington, D.C.|publisher=National Archives and Records Administration|date=17 September 1787|section=Article II, section 1|sectionurl=https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript|passage=The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice-President chosen for the same Term, be elected, as follows / Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.
(quote-book)|location=New York, N.Y.; London|publisher=G. P. Putnam's Sons|George Palmer Putnam’s Sons(nb...)|year=1906|page=250|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/electoralsystemo00douguoft/page/250/mode/1up|oclc=559469282|passage=The electors were originally designed to be the agents of a State, armed with plenary authority to cast its vote for President and Vice-President in such manner as the agents themselves or a majority of them might will, all danger of abuse of the trust being intended to be averted by the selection of worthy and fitting instruments for the execution of this high office. ... Electors are now the mere instruments of party, "party puppets," as Justice P. Bradley|Joseph Philo Bradley termed them, to perform a function which an automaton without intelligence or volition might as fittingly discharge.
(quote-journal) St. Clements Press(nb...)|date=16 February 1922|volume=XXI|issue=562|page=213|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=PkMZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA213|oclc=783923453|passage=The secondary electors will be formed into twelve electoral colleges according to the religious community to which they belong: the number of colleges to be allotted to each religious community will be proportionate to the number of secondary electors belonging to the several communities; and each electoral college will elect one member of the Legislative Council.
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(quote-book) Cover Up His Crime|location=Chicago, Ill.|publisher=Chicago Review Press|year=2015|section=part V (Stand Up for America, 1967–1968)|page=176|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=TQ_9BgAAQBAJ&pg=PA176|isbn=978-1-61373-070-6|passage=Faithless electors were nothing new in Wallace County. When President F. Kennedy|John Fitzgerald Kennedy won the election of 1960, Democratic electors from Alabama and Mississippi—incensed over Kennedy's stance on civil rights—tried to sabotage democracy by voting for Senator (w) of West Virginia—a former Klansman who wasn't even on the ballot. Had enough electors followed suit, the election of 1960 would have been thrown into the House Representatives, and Nixon|Richard Nixon might have won.
(alternative case form of).
(quote-book)|edition=new|location=London|publisher=(...) &91;In the house late Berthelet|Thomas Berthelettes&93;|year=1560|section=3rd book, folio 227, recto|oclc=1172192520|passage=Whan the electours profered to make him &91;(w)&93; emperour, he refuſed it, ſaiyng, that it was a greatter thynge to be kynge of Boheme, than emperour of Rome.
(quote-book), Galilei|Galileo, and Descartes|Descartes: 1558–1648|series=The Story of Civilization|seriesvolume=7|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=Simon & Schuster|year=1961|page=538|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=LO_betbQgNoC&pg=PA538|isbn=978-0-671-01320-2|passage=The seven Imperial electors who chose the Roman emperor controlled him by the pledges exacted from him as the price of his election. These electors were the king of Bohemia, the rulers of Saxony, Brandenburg, and the Palatinate, and the "spiritual electors"—the archbishops of Cologne, Trier, and Mainz.
(quote-book), wife of the elector’s heir, had chosen to give birth to her second child.
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