Sentence examples for refused to elect from inspiring English sources

His independence alienated fellow Democrats, and they refused to elect him speaker of the House in 1875.

Tennessee, a state that refused to elect Al Gore in 2000 and sends two Republican senators to Washington, has a mainly Democratic House delegation.

But a town that refused to elect Esther Rantzen as its MP has a common sense that bodes well for better times.

Last Tuesday, parliament voted again, but the Republican Party refused to elect Pashinian.

What if we the people simply refused to elect anyone to the Senate?

Voters in his district refused to elect another representative, and the seat remained vacant throughout the term to which Brown was elected.

It has been laid down that if all the states, or a majority of them, refuse to elect senators, the legislative powers of the Union will be suspended.

We can't refuse to elect any senators, for example, without rejecting the Constitution itself -- because our Constitution's form of government includes elected senators.

It's time we refuse to elect partisan puppets who are doctrinaire in their ideology and inflexible in their approach to governing.

But, just as clearly, if we refuse to elect a Senate then -- by definition -- we won't have the sort of government that the Constitution constitutes.

Refusing to elect a Senate would mean, in effect, rejecting the Constitution's form of government -- and thereby rejecting the Constitution itself.