Matters were complicated still further by the fact that the mayors of the towns were not elected by the council, but appointed by the crown.
Sidenote: The Third Estate] On the whole, it was probable that the elected representatives of the Third Estate would heed the cahiers.
The heads of the local government were no longer to be appointed by the crown but elected by the people, and extensive powers were granted to elective local councils.
The pope chose the cardinals; the cardinalselected the pope.
It was itself a revolution in city government: it substituted popularly elected officials in place of royal agents and representatives of the outworn gilds.
The legislative power was intrusted to the Cortes, a single-chamber parliament elected for two years by indirect universal suffrage.
Provision was made for a new system of law courts throughout the country, and the judges, like the administrative officials, were to be elected by popular vote.
And like every Member of the House and Senate, when I was elected to that office, I knew that I was electedfor the purpose of doing a job and doing it as well as I possibly can.
Another point I should like to make very briefly: Like every Member of the House and Senate assembled here tonight, I was elected to the office that I hold.
And I want you to know that I have no intention whatever of ever walking away from the job that the people elected me to do for the people of the United States.
By giving the people and their locally elected leaders a greater voice through changes such as revenue sharing, and by saying "no" to excessive Federal spending and higher taxes, we can help achieve this goal.
Even more than the programs I have described today, what this Nation needs is an example from its elected leaders in providing the spiritual and moral leadership which no programs for material progress can satisfy.
At the Assembly of 1785 he was elected secretary, with the Abbe de Dillon, and one day the president rose, after a speech from Talleyrand, to exhibit him to his colleagues as a model of zeal!
The five Directors were to be replaced by three Consuls elected for ten years--but if he thinks I am going to be a "fatted pig" he is mistaken, said Napoleon.
Sieyes and Mirabeau were elected with him: Danton followed on January 31st.
One-third had to be elected by the country, now returning to sobriety; but until the old majority should be broken by the retirement and re-election of a fresh third in May the situation was not reassuring.
He was elected deputy by a large majority, and his address, with a few additions, was adopted by his clergy as their cahier or book of instructions to their representative.
He had, he politely explained, been elected a member of the Department of Paris, and must in future reside constantly in the capital!
Only a set of doggoned skunks 'ud have elected Nat Hardroper sheriff, and only a set of white-livered coons 'ud have kep' him in the berth.
Instead of assisting at a grand pitched battle in the novel character of a spectator, I elected to warn your people.
Winthrop, whose trained eye took in the weakness, the frightful jeopardy of the situation, had his hands full at the side of the corral which he had elected to attend to.
About as much chance, I judge, as I have of being elected President," he replied, gruffly.
Sir Hans Sloane, after having accompanied the duke of Albemarle to Jamaica as physician, was elected on his return to this country to succeed Sir Isaac Newton as president of the Royal Society.
After Texas entered the Union, in 1845, Houston waselected to the United States Senate, in which he served for thirteen years.
He was also attorney-general of New York, was elected to the United States Senate, was tied with Jefferson for the Presidency, and then became Vice-President.
In 1869 Gambetta was elected by the Red Republicans to the Corps Legislatif.
In his earlier years Marat had been a very different figure--an accomplished physician, the friend of nobles, a man of science and original thought, so that he was nearly elected to the Academy of Sciences.
Lee, and organized the Ladies' Memorial Association of Fredericksburg, elected officers, appointed a board of directors, an executive committee and an advisory board.
He was elected to a seat in the Legislature, and the law required that members of the General Assembly should be owners of real estate.
It was also provided in the charter that if any person elected to an office failed or refused to serve, he was to be fined.
Hurkamp was elected and is commander at this time.
The committee, electedto draft the Declaration of Independence, consisted of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman and Robert R.
The result was Judge Sener was electedan honorary member of the society and the invitation was unanimously accepted.
At this election the voters were also to elect by ballot twelve persons as members of the Common Council of the town, who were to continue in office for one year and until their successors should be elected and qualified.
While the town was in the hands of the civil authorities--the Mayor and Common Council, elected at the last election held before the close of the war--it was only nominally so.
In Fredericksburg, divided into two wards as it had been for some years, the six Councilmen from each ward were elected at the same time to serve two years, the Mayor being the presiding officer of the body.
On the 3rd of May the Czech Catholics elected Matthias king of Bohemia, but this was contrary to the wishes of both pope and emperor, who preferred to partition Bohemia.
In the same year he was elected physician to St Thomas's Hospital, and appointed to read anatomical lectures at the Surgeons' Hall.
On his release he returned to Berlin, and thence to Paris, where he was elected director of the Academy of Sciences in 1742, and in the following year was admitted into the Academy.
The latter is elected directly by the voters within the city, usually for several years; and he has extensive administrative powers.
This official was elected by popular choice, a privilege secured from king John.
In France the maire, and a number of experienced members termed "adjuncts," who assist him as an executive committee, are elected directly by the municipal council from among their own number.
Two of the elected members represent St Louis, the 8 rural districts into which the island is divided electing each one member.
He is to be a fit person elected annually on the 9th of November by the council of the borough from among the aldermen or councillors or persons qualified to be such.
In 1820 he waselected by the Town-Council of Edinburgh to the Chair of Moral Philosophy in the University, which had become vacant by the death of Dr Thomas Brown.
The professors will be elected real academicians, and those of the writers will be elected honorary academicians who do not live in Petersburg, and so cannot be present at the sittings and abuse the professors.
They have elected Tolstoy [Footnote: An honorary Academician.
A Synodical epistle, such as newly-elected bishops were in the habit of sending to other bishops.
The same Witan which elected Wilfrid decided to transfer the Northumbrian see from Lindisfarne back to York, where Paulinus had originally established it.
And, in the second place, when the People chose a corn-commissioner, out of all Athens they elected me.
A noble clemency did he show to the Olynthians, who elected Lasthenes to command the cavalry, and banished Apollonides!
An elected official could refuse to serve, if he took an oath that there was some good reason (such as illness) for excusing him.
When the fury of the population had somewhat calmed down, theyelected Domingo de Irala as deputy-governor and captain general of the whole province.
This man had already been elected once before in the place of Francisco Ruiz, once Don Pedro de Mendoza's deputy.
Ruiz had been in truth a good deputy-governor; but against all justice, and from envy and malice, he was deposed and Domingo de Irala elected in his stead.
In various ways he sought to trip his adversary, believing that Lincoln had pledged himself to his Abolitionist allies in 1855 to vote against the admission of more slave States, if he should be elected senator.
A clever retort to Winthrop's reference to "this odious measure devised for sinister purposes by a President not elected by the people," won for Douglas the good-natured attention of the House.
The Constitution of 1818 put the control of local concerns in the hands of three county commissioners, who, though elected by the people, were not subjected to that scrutiny which selectmen encountered in the New England town meeting.
Four States had neglected to comply with the recent act of Congress reapportioning representation, having elected their twenty-one members by general ticket.
The Democratic county ticket waselected and a Democratic congressman from the district; but the Whigs elected their candidate for governor.
First, If Abraham Lincoln be elected President of the United States, will the Southern States be justified in seceding from the Union?
Nearly all of our officials are elected by popular vote, and those appointed are appointed by officers who are elected.
We must do the best we can; and we must not be discouraged if the men elected do not do all that we expect of them.
Miller of Pennsylvania, and serving in the 79th Division, waselected Vice-Chairman.
I can't see why we can't have for the permanent chairman of this convention the man who will be elected in November.
The Executive Committee met immediately after the adjournment of the caucus and elected Colonel Foreman of the Thirty-third Division, Chairman; Lt.
This was unanimously agreed upon and the temporary committee elected Lt.
He was elected in a three-cornered fight where he did not receive a majority vote in Chicago, but had the opposition to him been solidified he would have been snowed under, for Chicago is patriotic.
It has been moved and seconded that Colonel Roosevelt be elected chairman of this convention by acclamation.
Farrell were electedpermanent members at large of the Executive Committee.
Bacon waselected treasurer of the Legion to serve until November 11th.
In 1826 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society, and two years later went with Sir Roderick Murchison on a tour of Europe, and gathered evidence for the theory of geological uniformity which he afterwards promulgated.
In 1615 he was elected Lumleian lecturer at the College of Physicians, and three years later was appointed physician extraordinary to King James I.
In 1818 he received a baronetcy, and two years later was elected President of the Royal Society.
There was to be no more dependence on Downing-street; the Assembly, council, governor, and officers were all to be elected by the people.
Papineau was elected speaker—an appointment which, on account of his violent opposition to the measures of administration, Lord Dalhousie refused to sanction.
He waselected Governor, and, as he was a bachelor, my Soldier and I often assisted at his receptions.
While he was thus elected Emperor in Frankfort, he was in Prague deprived of the Bohemian throne.
King of the Romans, to which he was elected by a decided majority of votes, notwithstanding the opposition of Treves, and of the heirs of the Elector Palatine.
In his place they had elected Prince John Augustus, the second son of the Elector of Saxony, whom the Emperor rejected, in order to confer the archbishopric on his son Leopold.
Is Mr. Bryce's assertion that great men are rarely elected President true?
In some states the commissioners are elected by large districts into which the county is divided for that purpose.
In all the other states they are elected by the people.
In most states, however, the governor appoints all officers not elected by the people.
Thus Jefferson as president of the senate in 1801, counted the vote which elected him President of the United States and declared himself duly elected.
The town clerk is elected at the annual town meeting, and is frequently reelected from year to year.
The lower chamber, called the House of Representatives, consists of thirty-nine members, elected for a term of four years.
What is your opinion of the proposition that the members of the cabinet should be elected by the people?
The sheriff is elected by the people of the county, in all of the states except Rhode Island (where he is chosen by the state legislature), for a term ranging from one to four years, the most usual term being two years.
Are there any constitutional restrictions upon the number of members of the legislature which may be elected from any one city?
Newly elected senators are escorted to the Vice President's desk, usually each by his state colleague, and are sworn in individually.
He served out the unexpired term of Mr. McKinley and was elected to the following full term of four years.
The first military tribune with consular power elected from the plebeians was another Licinius Calvus.
A decree of the senate decided when and where a colony should be sent out, and the people in their assemblieselected individual members for colonization.
This collegium of three persons,[10] who were regarded as ordinary and standing magistrates of the state, and were annually elected by the assembly of the people, was entrusted with the work of resumption and distribution.
At the close of the year Licinius and Sextius were both re-elected but with colleagues on the side of their antagonists.
Licinius and Sextius were re-elected for the tenth time, A.
No magistrates could remain in office after their terms expired, whether there were any successors elected or not to come after them.
Allston Newhall was electedin 1878 and for several years was selectman.
In 1858 the district system was adopted, and Mr. Jonathan Newhall was elected to represent the twenty-fourth Essex District, comprising the towns of Saugus, Lynnfield and Middleton.
George Henry Sweetser was also a Selectman for years, and was elected to the Legislature for both branches, being Senator for two terms.
Hitchings was the next Representative, a shoe manufacturer, being elected over A.
Did you see in the papers the other day that Mr. Earling was elected president of a railroad, and did you know that he started in as a telegraph operator and a poor boy, with hair the color of tow?
There is a rumor among the boys that you may be nominated for President, and a lot of us boys got together and took a vote, when we were in swimming, and you were elected unanimously.
His faction elected Boniface VII, and a third faction elected John XV, who was put to death by Boniface.
