| 词汇 | congressional-district |
| 释义 | congressional district noun[ C ] uk /kəŋˈɡreʃ.ən.əl ˌdɪs.trɪkt/ us /kəŋˈɡreʃ.ən.əl ˌdɪs.trɪkt/ an area from which a member of the US House of Representatives is elected（美国）国会选区（每个选区均会产生一名众议院议员） International relations: United States politics & government anti-Republican battleground state bicameral blue state caucus confederacy gubernatorial homeland security House Committee Independence Day intercounty joint resolution override pentagon secret service secretary Secretary of State senate the Articles of Confederation the Republican Party During the following months, Morgan County, and the congressional district to which it belonged, became a political experiment station. How large is your Congressional district? Once the representative of a single Congressional district, he now represents the most populous nation of the globe. Examples of congressional districtcongressional district The congressionaldistrict, as compared to the state legislative district, would thus not serve to define any particularity at all. When voters produce divided government, it happens congressionaldistrict by congressionaldistrict or state by state. The large congressionaldistrict forced these towns, counties, and/or parishes to join together. Nevertheless, especially for critics of the constitution, the congressionaldistrict was neither expected nor designed to capture local interests. But both sides also agreed that the empirical claim was false because, again, the size of the congressionaldistrict would be too large. For apparent reasons, participants in the convention never entertained the possibility of the congressionaldistrict as the proper end of government. A thirteenth seat must be made by creating a congressionaldistrict that straddles two judicial districts. The new congressionaldistrict would be roughly ten times the size of the districts of most state legislatures. It is a single-issue interest group with a large membership (approximately 3.5 million members with thousands in every congressionaldistrict in 1994). Here, it highlights the lack of connection between congressionaldistrict and local interests. In either case, the argument assumes that the congressionaldistrict as such would not form a separate end of government. There was no such argument that the congressionaldistrict would for m such a distinct unit within society. The argument that federal and state governments have different ends leaves barren the claim that the congressionaldistrict was to represent interest in the national legislature. Indeed, the normative punch of my argument is that there were normative justifications for the large congressionaldistrict even though territory itself was not a primary desideratum. Similarly, critics argued that the congressionaldistrict would not be a safeguard to tyranny because it was too large and did not form a natural political society in itself. See all examples of congressional district These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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