Sentences with phrase «own elector»

Republican lawyers filed a motion that was posted on the court's website Friday accusing Stein of engaging in legal antics and saying her recount request endangers Pennsylvania's ability to certify its electors by the federal deadline.

Or am I being pedantic in the overstatement of their mandate to do as they wish without elector endorsement?

Second, the electoral college got stuck in to provide a last line of defense against public stupidity — in case you didn't know it, the electors aren't legally bound to vote as their state's majority has.

After five years of economic crisis and mass unemployment, Greek electors voted 61.3 percent «No» to the bailout conditions already rejected by their radical leftist government, casting Greece into uncharted territory.

YAC's solicitors told the Supreme Court of Western Australia on the 21 January that it would not continue with its intention to hold a General Meeting of Electors on 1 February following a challenge by WMYAC as to the validity of the meeting.

Separating fact from fiction is the job of electors, not the elected, though publishers — and that includes search and social firms — must take responsibility, too.

This temporary staff provides support for returning officers, electoral logistics, communication with electors, and studies relating to the operation of an electoral event.

The election is called for May 2 and then the electors will have the final say on who is out of touch.

Voter turnout across Canada in 2011 was 14,720,580 (61.4 percent of the total number of electors on the voters list).

It only affected the Electoral College because Florida's own method of determining Electors is tied to its own popular vote count.

A few simple sentences explaining why the court in Dresden was Catholic while Saxony was Lutheran (because in 1697 the elector of Saxony, Friedrich August, opportunistically converted to Catholicism in order to be elected king of Poland), the differences between Calvinist and Lutheran realms, why Leipzig was a commercial center, and other such matters would have been helpful.

another passing tought most of the cardinals electors are in their 60 or 70 years old according to the cannon law they could elect someone from the archbishop branch I am sure there is a younger and stronger priest that will have the courage and the strenght to clean and stear the barc of St. Peter and he will make the church stronger by correcting the wrongs of the past and mending and shapping the future of the church otherwise stay tuned for another older cardinal to be elected pope and wait another 8 years and we will have this very unsettleing situation once again.

The person having the greatest Number of votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed; and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President.

In the three centuries since the prince - elector of Hanover became George I of Great Britain, few power brokers have been more detached from the populace they affected than Rabbi Menachem Shach (1898 — 2001).

But if an election by plebiscite is ruled out, we are again faced with the question which body of electors would represent the actual people.

Catholic governance is a closed circle, a feedback loop where popes appoint bishops of like mind and bishops, as elector cardinals, elect a pope of like mind.

«The College of Cardinals includes 5 continents and 70 countries, 50 of which have Cardinals electors.

The 115 cardinal - electors taking part in the conclave will enter the closed - door process after a morning Mass, the Vatican said.

The cardinals voted Friday morning to accept the letters of explanation of two cardinal - electors who are eligible to vote for the next pope but will not attend the conclave: Keith O'Brien of Scotland and Julius Riyadi Darmaatmadja of Indonesia.

With solemnity, he delivered a homily about moving the Catholic Church forward to the cardinal electors, who were dressed in light yellow robes.

At each level, representatives would be chosen from among persons with whom the electors have worked closely.

But only in one of them is there a congruence between the elector and the elected.

The electors belong to various diocesan and national councils controlled by the political parties.

The meetings at Augsburg multiplied over the following two and a half months The Electors, their deputies the theologians, the Emperor's men, the Roman Curia's men, the ambassadors and assistants from all over Europe met in small groups and big groups.

Stimulated by a question as to the limits of the jurisdiction of the state, put by Dalberg, the great liberal prince - elector of Mayence, Humboldt wrote down his thoughts on this subject (1791).

Bernard Bailyn in The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (Harvard University Press, 1967) discusses three of these issues: different views of the relationship between the legislature and electors, different views of the legislature's sovereignty in relation to a higher law embodied in a constitution, and different views of the relation between, the central sovereign and subordinate political units.

Of that group, 103 were cardinal electors who will choose the next pope.

The Emperor requested the pro-imperial and pro-papal Electors to come to an arrangement with the Schmalkaldic League.

Everywhere I keep hearing that when the cardinals of the Catholic Church meet next month to elect Pope Benedict XVI's successor, there will be 117 electors in the conclave.

Twelve cardinal electors have not yet arrived in Rome, but were expected to arrive later Monday and Tuesday, he said.

Presumably this is how journalists come up with the figure of 117 electors.

By its famous non expedit decree it forbade Catholics to be electors or elected in the new nation.

The Emperor was attempting to buy the votes of the Electors for the imperial election which must follow his death.

A famous compromise was agreed: «The Electors, Princes, Estates of the Empire and the ambassadors of the same... while awaiting the sitting of a Council or a national assembly, agreed... each one to live, govern, and carry himself as he hopes and trusts to answer for it to God and his Imperial Majesty.»

The Electors, Princes and representatives of the Estates began to drift home, and nothing further was done immediately in the Luther case.

He delayed some days before showing one to anyone else, saying later that he wanted to avoid all possibility of involving the Elector in responsibility for his criticisms of the young Archbishop, whose elder brother in Brandenburg was another of the imperial electors.

Aleander began to work very hard along with the Emperor's Confessor Fr Glapion to persuade the Electors that the Diet should issue an Edict in support of the excommunication handing Luther over to the ecclesiastical authorities.

A further difficulty facing Aleander was that the Emperor needed the support of the Electors in raising an army with which to travel down to Italy to claim his coronation by the Pope as Holy Roman Emperor, and to do battle with France in Northern Italy.

Now that Frederick had gone home, the remaining Electors might be persuaded to sign; but the Emperor thought a little further delay might persuade the Pope not to sign a Treaty of Alliance with the King of France.

A full record of the machinations involved with the German Electors, with Francis I of France and Henry VIII of England and his ministers would themselves make a large book.

While the Electors and the Estates seem not to have been universally impressed with the romantic traditionalism of the young French - speaking chevalier, yet they had to avoid a head - on clash with their recently elected Lord.

The Electors were not well disposed towards Roman inspired demands, and were only too conscious of general unrest and of the widespread support for Luther, who was fast becoming a popular focus and symbol of every public dissatisfaction.

Only a few months later the Emperor held a Diet, and suddenly without legal order declared the Electors John Frederick and Philip of Hesse outlawed.

And now at last the young Emperor was in Europe; the October coronation in Aachen was to be followed by his first Diet, the formal consultation with the Electors and Estates of the Empire.

After the death of Pope John Paul II, the editor of The Tablet, Catherine Pepinster, decided that the Cardinal electors would benefit from heeding her...

Read literally, the only time that's fixed is the day that the electors cast their votes.

The electors of President and Vice President shall be appointed, in each State, on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November, in every fourth year succeeding every election of a President and Vice President.

It would be better to just eliminate «winner - take - all» and let each district send their own elector.

The Congress may determine the Time of chusing [sic] the Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States.

The final Reform Act did sweep away some aspects of the old system, but the conclusion drawn from this study is that the impact of reform on the constituencies varied enormously, and left a third of the surviving old boroughs with fewer electors than before.