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electors
electors in the history of the Holy Roman Empire , the princes who had the right to elect the German kings or, more exactly, the kings of the Romans (Holy Roman emperors). Until the reign (1493-1519) of Maximilian I , however, an elected king was traditionally crowned by the pope before he was ca... Read more
electoral college
electoral college in U.S. government, the body of electors that chooses the president and vice president. The Constitution, in Article 2, Section 1, provides: "Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senato... Read more
Frederick III
Frederick III (Frederick the Pious), 1515-76, elector palatine (1559-76). The first German prince to accept Calvinism, he ordered the Heidelberg Catechism (1563) drawn up (see under Heidelberg ). He aided the Calvinists in the Netherlands and in France. ... Read more
Johann Heinrich Roos
Johann Heinrich Roos , 1631-85, German painter and etcher. He specialized in depicting animals and landscapes and was court painter to Elector Palatine Charles Louis. He is represented in German galleries, and the New-York Historical Society has two of his paintings. ... Read more
Nikolaus von Amsdorf
Nikolaus von Amsdorf , 1483-1565, German Protestant reformer. He became a devoted supporter of Martin Luther. Elector John Frederick I of Saxony appointed Amsdorf bishop of Naumberg in 1541, but after the elector was captured by Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, the office was withdrawn (1547). A zealou... Read more
Wittenberg
Wittenberg , city (1994 pop. 53,374), Saxony-Anhalt, E Germany, on the Elbe River. A city with a noted history, it is today an industrial and mining center and a rail junction. Manufactures include chemicals and fertilizer. First mentioned in the late 12th cent., Wittenberg was (1273-1422) the seat ... Read more
Albert I
Albert I c.1250-1308, Holy Roman Emperor (1298-1308), son of Rudolf I . Albert was invested with Austria and Styria in 1282 by his father, who also hoped to secure the succession as king of the Germans for Albert. However, on Rudolf's death (1291) the electors rejected Albert's candidacy in orde... Read more
Frederick the Winter King
Frederick the Winter King 1596-1632, king of Bohemia (1619-20), elector palatine (1610-20) as Frederick V. The Protestant diet of Bohemia deposed the Roman Catholic King Ferdinand (Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II ) and chose Frederick as king. Influenced by his minister Christian of Anhalt , Fred... Read more
Johann Agricola
Johann Agricola , c.1494-1566, German Protestant minister, whose family name was Schnitter (originally Schneider). He was born at Eisleben and is sometimes called Magister Islebius. He had an early association with Martin Luther and was active in the founding of Protestantism. In 1536 he espoused an... Read more
Salomon de Caus
Salomon de Caus 1576-1626, French engineer and physicist, educated in England. From 1614 to 1620 he was engineer to the Elector Palatine, Frederick, at Heidelberg. Because of his Les Raisons des forces mouvantes avec diverses machines (1615), an early exposition of the principle of steam power, h... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Elector"

electors
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition electors in the history of the Holy Roman Empire...he was called emperor. Initially the electors merely confirmed hereditary succession...Henry V in 1125 without direct heirs, the electors set aside the principle of hereditary...
Elector
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law ELECTOR A voter who has fulfilled the qualifications imposed by law; a constituent; a selector of a public officer; a person who has...
the Great Elector
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition the Great Elector see Frederick William .
Electoral College
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...the candidates for elector are not even on...Those chosen as electors collectively constitute...state a number of electors equal to the number...Congress, with one elector assigned for each...for allocating electors to the candidates. Candidates for elector are vetted by the...
electoral college
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...S. government, the body of electors that chooses the president and...thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of...the U.S. government may be an elector. The electors are directed by the Constitution...
Twelfth Amendment
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law ...majority of the whole number of Electors appointed, and if no person...authorized to appoint as many electors as it had senators and representatives...served as vice president. Each elector voted for two individuals without...president. It was assumed that the electors would act independently of...
Berlin
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...the new rulers of Brandenburg in 1415. Elector Frederick II (ruled 1440 –...the growing Hohenzollern presence. The elector built the city palace on confiscated land...Berliners refused to follow the lead of Elector John Sigismund (ruled 1600 –...
Andreas Schlüter
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...apparently called there by the prince-elector of Brandenburg, Frederick III, who later...on one to Italy at the expense of the elector. Later that year Schl ü ter produced...after his models. Monument to the Great Elector In 1696 Schl ü ter began his designs...
Prussia
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...through inheritance to the elector of Brandenburg, and in 1660...Frederick William , the Great Elector. In the course of the 17th cent. the electors of Brandenburg directed themselves...Westphalia (1648). In 1701, Elector Frederick III had himself...
Brandenburg
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...of Nuremberg, who became Frederick I, elector and margrave of Brandenburg, initiating...or representative assembly. Both the elector and the nobles introduced the manorial...weak position when they negotiated with Elector Frederick William I, known as the "Great...

Dictionary entries related to "Elector"

Elector
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Elector a German prince entitled to take part...Emperor. There were originally seven Electors, the Archbishops of Cologne, Mainz...in 1806. electoral college a body of electors chosen or appointed by a larger group...
elector
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English e·lec·tor / iˈlektər; x2CC;tôr / • n. a person who has the right to vote in an election. ∎  (in the U.S.) a member of the electoral college. DERIVATIVES: e·lec·tor·ship n.
Cuvilliés, Jean-François-Vincent-Joseph
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...1708) the service of Max II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria (1679–1726...and, when Karl Albrecht succeeded as Elector (1726–45), seems to have...eluded him until 1763. For the new Elector's brother, Clemens August (1700...
Bush v. Gore
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...to determine the method for choosing electors. Two days later, on 24 November, the...The statute provided that a state's electors chosen according to procedures in effect...thereby denying Florida's eventual electors the law's protection. The argument...
Kunckel, Johann
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...of the bedchamber to Johann Georg II, elector of Saxony, where there was an active...1679 he was invited by Frderick william, elector of Brandenburg, to become head of his...director of the glassworks there. On the elector ’ s death in 1688 he entered...
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...statesman J. C. von Boyneburg, he met the elector Johann Philipp von Sch ö nborn...a number of position papers for the elector, and began a vast correspondence that...The mission was completed, but the elector Johann Philipp had died, and his successor...
Electoral College
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...Constitution in 1787, each state appointing as many electors as it had members of Congress, these electors then meeting to choose the President of the USA. As states extended their franchise these electors came to be chosen by direct election. With...
Schlüter, Andreas
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...1694 he moved to Berlin, and was sent by Elector Friedrich III of Brandenburg (1688...created the equestrian statue of the Great Elector ( Friedrich Wilhelm (1640–...Baroque Palace was mostly finished when the Elector became King Friedrich I of Prussia in...
Haak, Theodore
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...counselor of state to Frederick IV, the elector palatine. A grandson of Schloer ’...declined an offer to become secretary to the elector, Charles Louis, at Heidelberg, accepting...London. At this time John Wilkins was the elector ’ s private chaplain. In 1645...
Reichenbach, Georg Friedrich Von
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...military engineer in the service of the elector palatine, who was later king of Bavaria...science. His free time was spent at the elector ’ s observatory, where he learned...instrument making. After his graduation the elector, on Count Rumford ’ s recommendation...

Thesaurus entries related to "Elector"

elector
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus elector • noun  my thanks to the faithful electors who brought me to this place synonyms : voter, member of the electorate, constituent.
constituent
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...essential, inherent. • noun   1. representatives must listen to their constituents synonyms : voter, elector, member of a constituency.   2. the constituents of tobacco synonyms : component, ingredient, element; part...
public
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...unknown, secret. • noun   1. the American public synonyms : people, citizens, subjects, general public, electors, electorate, voters, taxpayers, residents, inhabitants, citizenry, population, populace, community, society, country...
people
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...and children'; informal folks. See note at person.   2. the American people synonyms : citizens, subjects, electors, voters, taxpayers, residents, inhabitants, (general) public, citizenry, nation, population, populace.  ...
register
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus register • noun   1. the register of electors synonyms : official list, listing, roll, roster, index, directory, catalog, inventory.   2. the parish register...
country
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...synonyms : people, nation, public, population, populace, community, citizenry; inhabitants, residents, citizens, electors, voters.   5. live in the country, not the city synonyms : countryside, rural area/district, farmland, great...

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ELECTORS TAKE RARE TURN IN SPOTLIGHT | ELECTORAL COLLEGE: TWO DEMOCRATS FROM ILLINOIS EXPRESS MIXED FEELINGS ON SYSTEM
Newspaper article from: News-Sun, The (Waukegan, IL); 11/17/2000; 700+ words ; ...Central Committee. While electors can vote for anyone...candidates. A West Virginia elector cast a presidential...a Washington state elector for President Ford voted...Reagan. And a maverick elector from South Carolina...Pierce said. Illinois electors will meet to cast their...
Electors meet to formalize Bush victory
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 12/19/2000; ; 692 words ; ...official Jan. 6. The electors gathered in their state...defect, the only rogue elector was a Democrat from...said New Hampshire elector Wayne McDonald, who...backing Gore. Some electors said they received thousands...said Arkansas elector Sarah Agee, a state...
Democratic electors discuss ending system: ; Electoral College should stay, GOP members say in survey
Newspaper article from: Charleston Daily Mail; 11/20/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...interviewed 342 electors, or nearly two...silly," said Gore elector Lana Boldi, a political...Benson, a Colorado elector for Bush. The idea...response from Gore electors: "Not unless I...1876 and 1888. Electors from small states...a South Carolina elector for Bush. "You...
Electors May Have the Last Word; Presidential System Has Some Room for Uncertainty
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 11/9/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...generally choose their electors from the ranks of the...becoming a "faithless elector." In Florida, for...law prescribes that electors be chosen by the respective...examples of faithless electors in American history...1988, for example, an elector from West Virginia who...
Electors to cast votes for president
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 12/18/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...a George W. Bush elector from Flagstaff, Ariz...will join seven other electors in the executive tower...called "faithless electors," others have dismissed it. New York elector Judith Hope thinks it...idea of persuading GOP electors to switch. "I think...
Electors Tugged By Political Tides
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 12/10/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...campaign work--the electors now represent the most...lesson," said Democrat elector Juanita Geathers, an...principal. The slates of electors for both parties were...Butterworth is a Democratic elector, for example. House...McKay are Republican electors. But the lists also...
ELECTORS MEET TO VOTE FOR PRESIDENT
News Wire article from: United Press International; 12/18/2000; 528 words ; ...state has one elector for each congressional...district plus two electors representing...the office of elector and an invalidation...The remaining electors then choose a...any registered elector can invoke the requirement electors "shall vote...
ELECTORS DON'T WAVER; BUSH WINS
Newspaper article from: The Columbian; 12/19/2000; ; 670 words ; ...said New Hampshire elector Wayne McDonald, who was...of backing Gore. Some electors said they received thousands...want,' " said Arkansas elector Sarah Agee, a state representative...voted Bush." Some Gore electors criticized the Electoral...
Democratic electors talk of abolishing the system
Newspaper article from: Courier-News (Elgin, IL); 11/20/2000; 700+ words ; ...Thirty-five electors had no comment or...said South Carolina elector Danny Faulkner...Benson, a Colorado elector for Bush. The idea...response from Gore electors: "Not unless I...1876 and 1888. Electors from small states...a South Carolina elector for Bush. "You...
Three `faithless electors' could still give election to Gore.
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 12/15/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...persuaded Oklahoma elector Dr. Henry D. Irwin...Mr. Byrd. Other electors made their political...that no "faithless elector" has ever been...parties could require electors to sign a pledge...and replace the elector on the spot. When...identified four Bush electors as potential ...