English Dictionary

Electoral College

固有名詞

別表記 アメリカ英語

Alternative letter-case form of electoral college.

日本語の意味

これは通常の 'electoral college' の大文字・小文字の使用法とは異なる、別の表記形式、すなわち文字の大小に関する活用形を示しています。

The Electoral College often plays a decisive role in close presidential elections.

選挙人団は接戦の大統領選でしばしば決定的な役割を果たす。

意味（1）

Alternative letter-case form of electoral college.

The Electoral College is composed of Six Electors; Three Ecclesiatical, Mentz, Trier, Collen; and Three Secular, The Palatine, Sane, and Brandebourg

意味（2）

(US politics) An electoral college chosen, within a state, to formally cast that state's votes for the president and vice president of the United States.

Each state's Electoral College submits its votes to the President of the Senate.

意味（3）

(US politics) All of the United States' electoral colleges, considered as one body.

In accordance with these opinions I believe that the ancient and outmoded Electoral College system should be abolished and that the people should vote directly in all the states for President and Vice President. The Electoral College was established in the beginning of our history for the same reasons which actuated our forefathers in providing that United States senators should be elected by the legislatures rather than by the people of the respective states.