Proportional Representation - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: proportional representationProportional representation
Proportional representation , is a system of voting deliberately designed to ensure that as far as practicable the different shades of opinion in a country shall receive a fair representation in the elected assembly i.e. a representation proportionate to their relative strength, UNESCO Report, p. 551.Means a method of representation designed to secure the election of candidates in proportion to the numerical strength of each section of political opinion thus accurately reflecting the political feeling of the country in Parliament, Office of the Speaker in the Parliaments of Commonwealth, Wilding and Philip Laundy, p. 602....
Justness
The quality of being just conformity to truth propriety accuracy exactness and the like justice reasonableness fairness equity as justness of proportions the justness of a description or representation the justness of a cause...
Model
A miniature representation of a thing with the several parts in due proportion sometimes a facsimile of the same size as a 1100 scale model of the B 52 bomber...
House of Commons
House of Commons, one of the constituent parts of Parliament, being the assembly of knights of shires, or the representatives of counties; citizens, or the representatives of cities; and burgesses, or the representatives of boroughs.The lowest chamber of British and Canadian Parlia-ment, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 744.Property Qualification.--The property qualification of members, which was by 1 & 2 Vict. c. 48, amending 9 Anne, c. 5, by allowing personal property to count fixed at 600l. a year for a county, and 300l. a year for a borough member, was abolished in 1858 by 21 & 22 Vict. c. 26.Payment of Members.--Members were from very early times entitled to payment at the rate of 4s. a day for county, and 2s. a day for borough members, payable by their constituents. This has never been abolished, and is recognized by the unrepeated 6 Hen. 8, c. 16, by which members may not depart from Parliament without licence from the Speaker on pain of losing their 'wages,' though 35 Hen. ...
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