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...attempt by the Constitutional Convention to create special voting minority seats in any student assembly, as we feel this presupposes an inability of Harvard students to elect representatives according to merit and without regard to race, that it violates a longstanding constitutional tradition of equal representation of each elector, and that it constitutes a patronizing gesture toward the members of those minority groups who are proud of their ability to recognize and protect their interests without special favors...
Although they believe Benelli unlikely to become the next Pope, Vaticanologists do see a major role for him when Paul dies or retires. "Benelli would be the 'great elector' and not the candidate," predicts one archbishop. More generally, it is thought that Paul wants Benelli to possess a cardinal's clout, the better to press Pauline principles in the inner circle of the Italian hierarchy and the College of Cardinals...
...Americans have been electing their Presidents by a Constitutional procedure designed to help preserve the rights of the individual states, a sensitive political issue at the time. As everybody who has taken Civics I should know, when the voters mark their ballots, they are really endorsing a slate of electors picked by the candidate's party. The electors of the winning party are authorized to cast all of their state's votes (a total equal to the number of its Congressmen and Senators) for their candidate. But they are not legally bound to do so. In each...
...George, be a king!" his mother commanded him, and no one can say that George III, King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick and Lüneburg, Arch-Treasurer and Elector of the Holy Roman Empire, has not done his best. The first English-born monarch since Queen Anne died more than 60 years ago, George proudly proclaimed in his first speech from the throne that he "gloried in the name of Briton."* Yet paradoxically, his patriotism, combined with the dogmatic, unyielding temperament he has shown since childhood, has torn apart the British Empire he inherited 16 years...
...Anne's death, Parliament awarded the Crown to the nearest Protestant heir, James I's great-grandson George, Elector of Hannover, and great-grandfather of the present King...