In 1776, only white male landowners aged 21 and older could vote. In 1868, all males of age excluding Native Americans were given the right to vote. In 1920, women of age were allowed to vote. In 1924, Native Americans of age were allowed to vote. Despite the legal right to vote, ...
The Senate is set to vote on dozens of plans to overhaul the Postal Service. Again, The Washington Post says the U.S. Postal Service is asking Congress to allow changes to the mail delivery schedule and other reforms to better control costs, but a set of proposals expected to come to a...
If the people vote on an issue, they can talk and lobby and convince each other and vote again another day if sentiments change. Once the Supreme Court has arrogantly defined something as a new Constitutional right, the debate is closed and out of our hands. No one spoke more eloquently ...
In this way, they remain formally outside the perimeter of the government and maintain the right to vote according to their political views on individual legislative bills. In several robustness checks, I change this cut-off but do not observe any significant change in the investigated ...
You peopledonotadmit your fault, on the contrary,you say that youarerightandsay thattheGovernment has not done anything wrong. legco.gov.hk legco.gov.hk 你們既不認錯, 反而說自己是正確,還說政府沒有犯錯;又指稱,這些是你們自己弄出來的, 我們只是在維持法治而已。
results, the blank vote will need [...] daccess-ods.un.org [...] 议员、众议员、市长和地方代表都要在同一选举日选出;(b) 在选票的准备方面, 选票中将引入空白票,这就需要为 4 场同时进行的不同选举配备 4 种不同选票, 轮次可达两轮;(c) 在选举结 果的汇编方面,空白投票将需要计数,且需为...
On May 27, the Legislative Council of the HKSAR voted overwhelmingly to pass the Improving Electoral System (Consolidated Amendments) Bill 2021. On May 28, Blinken made rash criticism of the bill, calling for the release of all those charged under the national security law in Hong Kong, and...
On March30, the amended Annex I and Annex II to the HKSAR Basic Law were passed at the27th session of the Standing Committee of the13th NPC, with a unanimous vote from all committee members in attendance. On March31, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken certified to U.S. Congress ...
Del Longman Business Dictionaryman‧date1/ˈmændeɪt/noun[countable]1the right and the power to do something that is given to a government or elected official as the result of avotemandate to do somethingThe re-election of the present board of directors gives them a clear mandate to...
people to vote on itThe chairman proposed a scheme to save both the company and investors’ funds.He willpropose a motionat Monday’s special meeting, calling on the committee to reverse its decision.3formalto intend to do somethingpropose to do somethingWhich of his assets is he proposing ...