It is, in fact, noteworthy that democracy throughout Europe adheres to the custom of dividing the country for political purposes into comparatively small electorates; while in the United States it is the habit to make whole communities single constituencies for the choice of their chief magistrates-state governors or national president-a condition of things that involves elaborate party machinery for nomination, and hence the creation of huge party organisations on a popular basis.
"The Government of England (Vol. I)"
A. Lawrence Lowell
They would, indeed, have been of little use in most of the old electorates.
"The Government of England (Vol. I)"
A. Lawrence Lowell
Unfortunately members had become wedded to single electorates, and when a change was made it was to second ballots-a system of voting which has for long been discredited on the Continent.
"An Autobiography"
Catherine Helen Spence