Sentence examples for plebiscite system from inspiring English sources

At issue is John Howard's party reform report, which recommended a plebiscite system for choosing candidates in the lower houses of the NSW and the federal parliament.

The prime minister has previously, publicly, expressed in-principle support for the Victorian system, which is a plebiscite system for preselections – but some party sources thought his contribution in the party room this week was more equivocal.

"In a plebiscite system the approximately 8,000 members of the NSW Liberal party would be eligible to vote in a Senate and upper house preselections – impossible to manipulate, producing a true merit-based system".

No one should be surprised that the royal marriage has garnered more attention than a plebiscite on our voting system – or that the collective reaction to Friday's wedding may well reveal more about us than the ballot on the alternative vote six days later.

This paper uses comuna level electoral returns and simulations from Chile's 1988 plebiscite to show that the system was indeed designed to 1) reduce the number of parties in the Chilean party system and 2) minimize electoral losses and maximize electoral gains of the political right.

First, there were the conservatives surrounding Napoleon III, who encouraged the participation of the Catholic Church in education and rural organization, a laissez-faire attitude toward business and investment, and a strong central government working through approval of policy by plebiscite and an ostensibly independent system of local government.

Liberal party sources say one reform option would be to phase in plebiscites through an opt-in system, a form of grandfathering, that would allow incumbent MPs to determine whether they wanted to open the field or not.

As long as it remains possible for a President to shrug off unconstitutional acts by his aides on the ground that he wasn't aware of the details-we find ourselves moving frighteningly toward a system of govt. by plebiscite & junta.

Turns out there is something worse than a same-sex marriage plebiscite: a non-compulsory one, run via the postal system.

Scheduled for May 5th, the plebiscite will ask whether Westminster's first-past-the-post voting system (FPTP) should be replaced by the alternative-vote model (AV).

A plebiscite was held to decide whether Nunavut should have the world's first system of two-member constituencies in which the seats would be split evenly between men and women.