Proportion Quote by Robert A. Dahl Download Open image “Require... electoral votes to be allocated in proportion to the popular votes” — Robert A. Dahl ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Proportion Vote
Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
That's what I'm doing here, throw out New York and California, Donald Trump wins the popular vote by nearly three million votes. But you… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
US needs to fix up it's election system so that votes are fairly counted, and the Electoral College is removed. — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
In any election, it's important that the public perceive that the election is held fairly. — Avi Rubin Copy Share Image
It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
In any election, it's important that the public perceives that the election is held fairly. — Avi Rubin Copy Share Image
The Government and the Parliament, even the House of Lords, will consent to a large increase of electors; and men who have not considered… — John Bright Copy Share Image
Every citizen's vote should count in America, not just the votes of partisan insiders in the Electoral College. The Electoral College was necessary when… — Gene Green Copy Share Image
The Electoral College is provided for in Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution. More space in the Constitution is devoted to laying out… — Kayleigh McEnany Copy Share Image
Presidents are elected not by direct popular vote but by 538 members of the Electoral College. — Thomas E. Mann Copy Share Image
The National Popular Vote is about getting states to convert from the winner-take-all rule. The states that pass the legislation will assign all their… — Tom Golisano Copy Share Image
“democratic theory is concerned with processes by which ordinary citizens exert a relatively high degree of control over leaders;” — Robert A. Dahl Copy Share Image
As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics until the… — Robert A. Dahl Copy Share Image
If democracy is justified in governing the state,then it must also be justified in governing economic enterprises, and to say that it is not… — Robert A. Dahl Copy Share Image
Ironically, the very fact that democracy has such a lengthy history has actually contributed to confusion and disagreement, for 'democracy' has meant different things… — Robert A. Dahl Copy Share Image
Democracy, it appears, is a bit chancy. But its chances also depend on what we do ourselves — Robert A. Dahl Copy Share Image
Most of us readily take things for granted that at an earlier time remained to be discovered — Robert A. Dahl Copy Share Image
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish. — William Blake Copy Share Image
The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
To behave creatively in art means behavior with skill; and skill comes from discipline, not derangement. The artist who knows the rules -and proportion… — Burne Hogarth Copy Share Image
The risk of developing carcinoma of the lung increases steadily as the amount smoked increases. If the risk among non-smokers is taken as unity… — Richard Doll Copy Share Image
In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
...a writer's works, like the water in an artesian well, mount to a height which is in proportion to the depth to which suffering… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“But the secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every words that serves no function, every long word… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I have thoroughly tried school-keeping, and found that my expenses were in proportion, or rather out of proportion, to my income,for I was obliged… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
By measuring the proportion of children living with the same parents from birth and whether their parents report a good quality relationship we are… — Iain Duncan Smith Copy Share Image
As it can be maintained that all the great advances have come from men under forty, so the history of the world shows that… — William Osler Copy Share Image
In any given society the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that society. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
Well, I don't know how they define that. But they have this Texas blues thing blown kinda out of proportion. I am a Long… — John Hunter Copy Share Image
