REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE ACTS

statutes enacted by the British Parliament to continue the extension of the franchise begun by the Reform Bills (see under Reform Acts). As a result of the government's dependence on the unified efforts of the whole people in World War I the Representation of the People Act of 1918 qualified as voters (with a few exceptions) women over 30 years of age and all men of 21 years or over who could establish short residence. The basis of representation in the House of Commons was fixed at 1 to 70,000. The Representation of the People Act of 1928 qualified all women on the same terms as men. The Representation of the People Act of 1949 reenacted and codified previous legislation relating to the conduct of elections and illegal electoral practices; it abolished the university constituencies and the additional vote given to the occupiers of business premises, thus eliminating plural voting. The Representation of the People Act of 1969 lowered the voting age to 18.

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Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America
Book by Edmund S. Morgan; W. W. Norton, 1988
Subjects: Representative Government And Representation--Great Britain--History, Representative Government And Representation--United States--History, Sovereignty--History
...ingredient in the fiction of representation and in the way people thought about government...newfound sovereignty of the people. A rational plan of parliamentary representation in England was in...rested on supposed acts of the people, both past and present...
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To Serve the People: Congress and Constituency Service
Book by John R. Johannes; University of Nebraska Press, 1984
Subjects: Representative Government And Representation--United States, United States--Congress
...Council on Library Resources. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication...Johannes, John R., 1943- To serve the people. Bibliography: p. Includes index...Representative government and representation--United States. I. Tide. II. Title...
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Administrative Regulation: A Study in Representation of Interests
Book by Avery Leiserson; University of Chicago Press, 1942
Subjects: Administrative Law--United States, Associations, Institutions, Etc--United States, Executive Departments--United States
...The Grain Futures Acts of 1921 and 1922, 62 the ____________________ 61 People v. Chicago Board of...Saul Nelson, Representation of the Consumer Interest...exposing and prohibiting acts of misrepresentation...
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The Fictions of Language and the Languages of Fiction: The Linguistic Representation of Speech and Consciousness
Book by Monika Fludernik; Routledge, 1993
Subjects: Discourse Analysis, Literary, Discourse Analysis, Narrative, Fiction--Technique, Free Indirect Speech, Psychology In Literature
...rendering of speech...than thought acts, however...reliable representation in the everyday...Contexts: the reporting of speech and thought acts This...and thought representation has been...including speech acts), and it highlights the narrators...evaluative) point of view. Diegesis...and thought representation in greater...
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The Mental Representation of Trait and Autobiographical Knowledge about the Self
Book by Thomas K. Srull, Robert S. Wyer Jr., Stanley B. Klein, Judith B. Loftus; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1993
Subjects: Personality And Cognition, Self (Philosophy), Self-Knowledge, Theory Of, Self-Perception
...knowledge about real people in memory. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Preparation of this chapter was supported...Senate Research Grant to the first author from the...Zelen Ed. , Self-representation: The second attribution-personality...Craik K. H. 1984 . "Acts, dispositions, and personality...
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The Representation of Speech in the Casuistic Laws of the Pentateuch: the Phenomenon of Combined Discourse
Journal article by Assnat Bartor; Journal of Biblical Literature, Vol. 126, 2007
Subjects: Law, Methods, Receivers & amplifiers, Speech, Theory
...the law we find the addressees (the people of Israels) inner speech: "... saying...fathers have known, 8some of the gods of the peoples that are round about you, whether...fathers have known, some of the gods of the peoples that are round about you, whether...
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We Didn't Do That Did We? Representation of the Veteran Experience
Journal article by Anne L. Shewring; Journal of American and Comparative Cultures, Vol. 23, 2000
Subjects: Ashby, Hal, Motion picture criticism, Stone, Oliver, Veterans, Vietnam War, World War II, Wyler, William (1902-81), Zinnemann, Fred
...Perhaps Freds wife in Best Years is the only real representation of this kind of character. She likes the way Fred looks in his uniform and enjoys spending...fighters following the Spanish American War, acts which led enlisted men to ask what they were...
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From Form to Platform: the Politics of Representation and the Representation of Politics
Journal article by Johanne Lamoureux; Art Journal, Vol. 64, 2005
Subjects: Art criticism, Art exhibits, Magic & magicians, Political representation, Politics
...belonged; the fetish acts as a person; the artwork is treated as...remained blind to the notion of fetishism and its possible...exhibition doesnt involve the representation of an ethnographic other...performed by the aboriginal people from the Yuendumu community...
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Islamic Radicalism Online: the Moluccan Mission of the Laskar Jihad in Cyberspace
Journal article by Birgit Bräuchler; The Australian Journal of Anthropology, Vol. 15, 2004
Subjects: Communication Forum of the Followers of the Sunnah & the Community of the Prophet, Internet, Islam, Laskar Jihad, Moluccas, Political dissent, Radical groups, Rebellions, Religious fundamentalism
...Muslim governments support the USA, the Muslim people themselves never will (ML 8.10.2001). This is one side of the story. The other side concerns the suspicions...distanced itself from previous terrorists acts in Indonesia, such as the bloody Christmas...
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The Acts of the Apostles, Greek Cities, and Hadrian's Panhellenion
Journal article by Laura Nasrallah; Journal of Biblical Literature, Vol. 127, 2008
Subjects: Christianity, Cultural identity, Geography, Political alliances, Religion, Theology
...cried the people when they...Homoiothentes (the passive of the verb...temples, Acts presents...stone, a representation by art and...shrines and representations to which...a vision of the world where...the God of Acts 2. In Acts...commands all people, of all nations...
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Do the People Rule?
Magazine article by Michael Lind; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 26, Winter 2002
Subjects: Americans--Attitudes, Politics--Public opinion, Public opinion polls--Analysis, Sovereignty--Public opinion
...majority of the American people, considered as a single...Calculated according to the index of representation in the House, as proposed...sufficient basis for the moral legitimacy of governments or their acts. In a world in which peoples rather than kings...
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The People vs. Texaco
Magazine article by Glenn Switkes, Jean G. Colvin; NACLA Report on the Americas, Vol. 28, 1994
Subjects: Latin America, Latin America--Foreign Relations--United States, United States--Foreign Relations--Latin America
...companies without indigenous representation. And the encroachment of oil companies looms on the...economies and cultures, indigenous people themselves must be in control...of our peoples are declared acts of war," CONAIE president Luis...
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Digging out of the Digital Divide
Magazine article by Peter Galuszka; Diverse Issues in Higher Education, Vol. 24, March 8, 2007
Subjects: Agreements, Digital divide, Entrepreneurs, Minority & ethnic groups, Pinkett, Randal
...about boosting minority representation in the sciences and closing...dealing with the aftermath of "The Apprentice" win...Or, worse, if Johnny acts well for the day, Johnny...case has been made and people understand the value...
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The Internal Brand of the Scarlet W
Magazine article by Stephen Jay Gould; Natural History, Vol. 107, March 1998
Subjects: Behavior, Genetics, History, Immigration
...form of the gene somehow acts to enhance the brains response to dopamine...broad and basic aspects of temperament-a bit of...generate a mood leading some people to greater openness toward...substantial over- or under-representation, then a pathology may...
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Representation: An Important Process for Teaching and Learning Mathematics
Magazine article by Francis Fennell, Tom Rowan; Teaching Children Mathematics, Vol. 7, January 2001
Subjects: Mathematics--Study and teaching, Mental representation--Analysis, Teaching--Models
...count the units. The acts of representing measurement...them. For many students, the result is efficiency at...measurement situation is a representation of the attribute that...tallest. * More short people were in the class than...
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Shane's Set to Make It a Festival to Remember
Newspaper article by Colin Murray; The People (London, England), June 7, 1998
...ever. Three headline acts are due to perform in...stars are far apart on the popular music scale...serious musician". In fact, of course, she can also...think we are the best representation of British music of the...see that the younger people have found reason to...
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Two Councils ( It Is about the People
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), June 11, 2007
...Is this the type of representation that Gordon Brown meant...represented"? Promises from the Department of Transport have failed...some light into many peoples lives THOUGH nearly a...Hence the orchestrated acts of brainwashed extremist...
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If We Can Make a Go of Devo, the People Will Want Even More; SALMOND GEARS UP FOR NATS' VITAL WEEK
Newspaper article by Ron Mackenna; The Mirror (London, England), September 21, 1998
...success of the powers we have, people will see that more can be achieved...independence." He warned that one of his first acts in the new parliament will be to hit...councils by introducing proportional representation to end Labours domination and...
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Milosevic, Curcic, Mijatovic ... It's Time to Panic!; Yugoslavs Better Than Croatia!; Says Republic No2 Ian Evans
Newspaper article by Frank Johnstone; The People (London, England), August 16, 1998
...admirers and possess really class acts in Suker, Boban, Jarni and Prosinecki...may have Boksic available for the European Championship tie at...sandwiched between the high profiles of McCarthy and the remarkably...play-offs which will decide Europes representation in the Olympic Games in Sydney...
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Comment: How the Unelected Defended the Electorate; Dennis Ellam on How the Peers Are More in Touch with the People Than the New Labour Spinners
Newspaper article by Dennis Ellam; The Birmingham Post (England), November 19, 1998
...Lords, then homosexual acts between adults and juveniles...now. It has stood in the way of Conservative misjudgments...aspirations of ordinary people? The practicality...such ideals as "ethnic representation". And yet, for all...
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1.
Representation of the People Acts
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE ACTS statutes enacted...see under Reform Acts ). As a result of the governments dependence...efforts of the whole people in World War I the Representation of the People Act...
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Text of the Constitution of the United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State shall...qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of...When vacancies happen in the representation of any State in the Senate...
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Constitution of the United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...power, but its first words, "We the People of the United States," describe the source...federal court to force equitable representation in a state legislature. This decision...given in each State to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings...
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Reform Acts
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...rendered representation nearly proportional to population. It was not, however, until the passage of the Representation of the People Acts in the 20th cent. that the British Parliament adopted universal male and female suffrage. See studies...
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Parliament
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...followed by the Reform Bills of 1867 and 1884 and the eventual establishment of universal suffrage by the Representation of the People Acts in 1948. Parliamentary committees, appointed to investigate social conditions and recommend legislation...
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