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POWELL, Ellis Thomas was born in 1869 in Ludlow, Shropshire. Son of Thomas Powell and Harriet, daughter of Ellis Stanier Jones.
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XI. The Poll: The Act and Mode of Voting. The " poll " was, of course, originally the counting of " polls"'--of heads. There was formerly no limit to the duration of the process; and its condition--the "state of the poll "--was announced from time to time, to the encouragement, it may be, of one party and the dismay of the other. The prolongation of the poll at last became an intolerable abuse, and by the Act 25, George III., c. 84, it was ordered that the proceedings should not extend over a greater period than fifteen days. Nowadays the poll occupies exactly twelve hours (8 a.m. to 8 p.m.); and, since the counting of the "polls "--in the Romford division, for instance--would be a physical impossibility within that space of time, it is taken by means of the simple mechanism of the ballot, except at the Universities, where it is done.orally, or by proxy. A perusal of Chapter XIII. of the "Pickwick Papers" will convey to the mind of the reader an excellent, if somewhat humorously embroidered, idea of the scenes of violence and disorder, by which, almost within living memory, the proceedings at the poll were characterised. All Elections oil One Day. The statutory regulations for the fixation of polling day have already been explained. Their upshot, as far as a general election is concerned, is that the act of national judgment, which ought to be focussed into a united and simultaneous pronouncement, is allowed to straggle over several weeks. Instead of forcing each elector, as far as possible, to rely upon his individual intellect, we allow him to 'be influenced, through the pernicious medium of mass-suggestibility, by the opinions of other people. The earliest elections sometimes do, and sometimes do not, indicate the real opinion of the nation; bu...
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The Four Canons of Self-G overnment. First Canon: Governing the Suffrage and the Registration of Electors. The electoral rigfils and privilejes of citizenship shouht as far as possible be inseparably associated ivith its obligations and this ivithout distinction of sex: so thai the State shall not proceed to enforce the discharge of the obligations, especially in the shape of rales and taxes until it has conferred the rights and privileges or furnished in each individual case a definite and legitimate reason for its refusal so to do. Second Canon: Mainly Governing the Distribution of Seats: the Selection of Candidates: the Nomination :the Payment of Members and Election Expenses and Returning Officers Charges. The area from which the political organism may select the exponents and instruments of its legislative will must be coextensive with the mature fi.e. the adult) intellectual faculties of the organism itself and the selective power must be distributed and uninterruptedly maintained in strict proportion to the respective development of the various constituent elements which make up its political individuality so that the expression of its desires and aspirations may take place with the maximum of precision and freedom, and the realisation of its resolutions with the maximum of efficacy. Third Canon :M ainly Governing the Actual Contest: the Party System: Corrupt and Illegal Practices :the Arrangements for the Poll: the A ct and Mode of Voting. The electoral verdict should be the superior aggregate of the largest attainable collocation of deliberate individual judgments,, not the merely mechanical consensus of the majority of the mass. For that reason there should be eliminated from the electoral tribunal to the utmost possible extent,, all opportunity for the accidental predominance of the minority and all the influences that have their origin in,, or te (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)
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Excerpt from Practical Notes on the Management of Elections: Being Three Lectures on Parliamentary Election Law and Practice, Given at the London School of Economics and Political Science, (University of London) The modern statutes which are of special application to election work in this country begin with the Parliamentary Election Act of 1853, which limits the time for proceeding to election in certain constituencies. The statutes of first importance are, however, 17 and 18 Viet., c. 102, which consolidates and amends the law relating to bribery, treating, and undue influence; the Representation of the People Act, 1867 (which, incidentally, provides for the representation of the University of London); the Parliamentary Elections Act, 1868, which is the main authority for the law relating to election petitions; the supremely important Ballot Act (1872); and the Corrupt and Illegal Practices Prevention Act, 1883, which is practically a codification of the law on the subject. This Act is an almost contemporary enunciation of the legal principles applicable to elections. It is an Act with which every election agent and every active and responsible political worker, whether official or unofficial, ought to be thoroughly acquainted. The Registration Act and the Redistribution Act, both of 1885, are concerned with elements of the electoral mechanism which do not enter into the present survey. The only two important additions to election legislation, since 1883, are (a) the Corrupt and Illegal Practices Prevention Act of 1895, which deals with false statements of fact with reference to the personal conduct or character of a candidate; and (b) the Public Meeting Act, 1908. Both these Acts will be briefly considered in their place. Beyond this legislation, however, we have to take into consideration (a) the decisions of the election petition judges with regard to the interpretation of these statutes; (b) the decisions and interpretations of the old Election Committees, who tried election petitions before 1868, when the House of Commons decided to delegate its functions in these matters to one judge, and in 1879 to two judges, of the High Court, and (c) certain election customs, now universally recognised as reasonable and fair. Most of these are legal, but one or two are of extremely doubtful legality, though, by a kind of tacit agreement between parties, they are never challenged. Such, for instance, is the employment of paid party agents, sent down from the central offices of the party organisation, to assist in by-elections. These gentlemen are remunerated from the central party funds, but the money which they receive is not reckoned among the election expenses, where, strictly speaking, it certainly ought to appear. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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POWELL, Ellis Thomas was born in 1869 in Ludlow, Shropshire. Son of Thomas Powell and Harriet, daughter of Ellis Stanier Jones.
Studied at Ludlow Grammar School (Langfordian Scholar). Bachelor of Laws (London).
Sc. (London); managing editor of the Financial News; Fellow of the Royal Historical and Royal Economic Societies; of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law; Lecturer at the London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London).
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Music, tennis, study, illumination of MSS., psychic research, electioneering (chief Unionist agent in the longest election petition on record, and in Thanet, 1904-1906), and the microscope and telescope.