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representatives
(encz) | representatives,představitelé n: Zdeněk Brož |
representatives
(encz) | representatives,zástupci n: pl. Zdeněk Brož |
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house of representatives
(encz) | House of Representatives,Sněmovna reprezentantů dolní sněmovna web |
Personal representatives
(gcide) | Personal \Per"son*al\ (p[~e]r"s[u^]n*al), a. [L. personalis: cf.
F. personnel.]
1. Pertaining to human beings as distinct from things.
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Every man so termed by way of personal difference.
--Hooker.
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2. Of or pertaining to a particular person; relating to, or
affecting, an individual, or each of many individuals;
peculiar or proper to private concerns; not public or
general; as, personal comfort; personal desire.
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The words are conditional, -- If thou doest well, --
and so personal to Cain. --Locke.
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3. Pertaining to the external or bodily appearance;
corporeal; as, personal charms. --Addison.
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4. Done in person; without the intervention of another.
"Personal communication." --Fabyan.
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The immediate and personal speaking of God. --White.
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5. Relating to an individual, his character, conduct,
motives, or private affairs, in an invidious and offensive
manner; as, personal reflections or remarks.
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6. (Gram.) Denoting person; as, a personal pronoun.
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Personal action (Law), a suit or action by which a man
claims a debt or personal duty, or damages in lieu of it;
or wherein he claims satisfaction in damages for an injury
to his person or property, or the specific recovery of
goods or chattels; -- opposed to real action.
Personal equation. (Astron.) See under Equation.
Personal estate or Personal property (Law), movables;
chattels; -- opposed to real estate or real property.
It usually consists of things temporary and movable,
including all subjects of property not of a freehold
nature.
Personal identity (Metaph.), the persistent and continuous
unity of the individual person, which is attested by
consciousness.
Personal pronoun (Gram.), one of the pronouns I, thou,
he, she, it, and their plurals.
Personal representatives (Law), the executors or
administrators of a person deceased.
Personal rights, rights appertaining to the person; as, the
rights of a personal security, personal liberty, and
private property.
Personal tithes. See under Tithe.
Personal verb (Gram.), a verb which is modified or
inflected to correspond with the three persons.
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house of representatives
(wn) | House of Representatives
n 1: the lower legislative house of the United States Congress
[syn: United States House of Representatives, {U.S. House
of Representatives}, US House of Representatives, {House
of Representatives}, U.S. House, US House] |
u.s. house of representatives
(wn) | U.S. House of Representatives
n 1: the lower legislative house of the United States Congress
[syn: United States House of Representatives, {U.S. House
of Representatives}, US House of Representatives, {House
of Representatives}, U.S. House, US House] |
united states house of representatives
(wn) | United States House of Representatives
n 1: the lower legislative house of the United States Congress
[syn: United States House of Representatives, {U.S. House
of Representatives}, US House of Representatives, {House
of Representatives}, U.S. House, US House] |
us house of representatives
(wn) | US House of Representatives
n 1: the lower legislative house of the United States Congress
[syn: United States House of Representatives, {U.S. House
of Representatives}, US House of Representatives, {House
of Representatives}, U.S. House, US House] |
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
(bouvier) | HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, government. The popular branch of the legislature.
2. The Constitution of the United States, art. 1, s. 2, 1, provides,
that "the house of representatives shall be composed of members chosen every
second year by the people of, the several states; and the electors of each
state, shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most
numerous branch of the state legislature."
3. The general qualifications of electors of the assembly, or most
numerous branch of the legislature, in the several state governments, are,
that they be of the age of twenty-one years and upwards, and free resident
citizens of the state in which they vote, and have paid taxes: several of
the state constitutions have prescribed the same or higher qualifications,
as to property, in the elected, than in the electors.
4. The constitution of the United States, however, requires no evidence
of property in the representatives, nor any declarations as to his religious
belief. He must be free from undue bias or dependence, by not holding any
office under the United States. Art. 1, s. 6, 2.
5. By the constitutions of the several states, the most numerous branch
of the legislature generally bears the name of the house of representatives.
Vide Story on Constitution of the United States, chap. 9 1 Kent's Com. 228.
6. By the Act of June 22, 1842, c. 47, it is provided,
Sec. 1. That from and after the third day of March, one thousand eight
hundred and forty-three, the house of representatives shall be composed of
members elected agreeably to a ratio of one representative for every seventy
thousand six hundred and eighty persons in each state, and of one additional
representative for each state having a fraction greater than one moiety of
the said ratio, computed according to the rule prescribed by the
constitution of the United States; that is to say: within the state of
Maine, seven; within the state of New Hampshire, four; within the state of
Massachusetts, ten; within the state of Rhode Island, two within the state
of Connecticut, four; within the state of Vermont, four; within the state of
New York, thirty-four; within the state of New Jersey, five; within the
state of Pennsylvania, twenty-four; within the state of Delaware, one;
within the state of Maryland, six; within the state of Virginia, fifteen;
within the state of North Carolina, nine; within the state of South
Carolina, seven; within the state of Georgia, eight; within the state of
Alabama, seven; within state of Louisiana, four; within the state of
Mississippi, four; within the state of Tennessee, eleven; within the state
of Kentucky, ten; within the state of Ohio, twenty-one; within the state of
Indiana, ten; within the state of Illinois, seven; within the state of
Missouri, five; within the state of Arkansas, one; within the State of
Michigan, three.
7.-2. That in every case where a state is entitled to more than one
representative, the number to which each state shall be entitled under this
apportionment shall be elected by districts. composed of contiguous
territory, equal in number to the number of representatives to which said
state may be entitled, no one district electing more than one
representative.
8. For the constitutions of the houses of representatives in the
several states, the reader is referred to the names of the states in this
work. Vide Congress.
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