Elections
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An election is a formal democratic decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual to hold public office.
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- I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law.
- Fisher Ames, speech on Biennial Elections before the Convention of Massachusetts (January 1788), reported in Seth Ames, John Thornton Kirkland, Works of Fisher Ames with a Selection from His Speeches and Correspondence (1854) p. 7.
- In countries where royalty is upheld, it is a special offence to rob the crown jewels, which are the emblems of that sovereignty before which the loyal subject bows, and it is treason to be found in adultery with the Queen, for in this way may a false heir be imposed upon the State; but in our Republic, the ballot-box is the single priceless jewel of that sovereignty which we respect, and the electoral franchise, out of which are born the rulers of a free people, is the Queen whom we are to guard against pollution.
- Charles Sumner in his The Crime Against Kansas speech (May 19-20, 1856)
- An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
- George Eliot in Felix Holt (1866)
- Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
- H. L. Mencken, Prejudices, First Series (1919).
- An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
- George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah
- And we know there has been horrendous loss of life and suffering and we know that there is anger. Anyone who came anywhere near the general election in constituencies with a substantial Muslim population knows that.
- Let all people come in, and vote fairly; it is to support one or the other party, to deny any man's vote.
- Holt, C.J., Ashby v. White (1703), 2 Raym. Rep. 958; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 244-245.
