Sentences with 'constituencies'
Example sentences and phrases with the word constituencies and other words derived from it.
• « There was limited representative government in parliament, and the electorate represented mostly the landed gentry class. Moreover, the constituencies were either totally out of sync with the British population or were, in fact, complete nonsense. »
• « The constituencies had not been revised to reflect changes in population since the 18th century, and thus the North was grossly under-represented. There were also "rotten boroughs", constituencies with no one in them that were remotely controlled by a lord. One of them was a pasture. Another, called Dunwich, was literally under water; due to changes in the dykes, it had been flooded for centuries. Yet it still sent a representative to parliament, namely the descendant of the lords who had controlled it before it was submerged. »
• « The 1840s were a particularly active time in the creation and reorganisation of political parties and constituencies, mainly because of dissatisfaction with the positions of the major Whig and Democratic parties on slavery and its extension into the territories. »