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121The Wright System — Rules and procedures for a Reiterative Proportional Single Transferable Vote Computerised Count The Wright system (named after the late Jack Wright, author of the Book Mirror of a Nation s Mind and past President of the Proportional… …
122Baker v. Carr — (1962) U.S. Supreme Court case that forced the Tennessee legislature to reapportion itself on the basis of population. The case ended the traditional overrepresentation of rural areas in the legislature and established that the court may… …
123scale — 1. A standardized test for measuring psychological, personality, or behavioral characteristics. SEE ALSO: score, test. 2. SYN: squama. 3. A small thin plate of horny epithelium, resembling a fish s., cast off from the skin …
124County-unit system — The County Unit System was used by the U.S. state of Georgia to determine a victor in its primary elections. Each county was given a certain number of votes and the candidate who received the highest number of votes in that county won all their… …
125Unweighted Index — A simple arithmetic or geometric average used to calculate stock indexes. Equal weight is invested in each of the stocks in an index with equal dollar amounts invested in each underlying stock. Because the stocks are equally weighted, one stock s …
126Chobham armour — A pre series American M1 Abrams, the first main battle tank type to be protected by Chobham armour …
127Leadership convention — In Canadian politics, a leadership convention is held by a political party when the party needs to choose a leader due to a vacancy or a challenge to the incumbent leader. Overview In Canada, the leader of a party generally remains that party s… …
128Free trade debate — Free trade is one of the most debated topics in economics of the 20th and 21st century Fact|date=December 2007. Arguments over free trade can be divided into economic, moral, and socio political arguments. The academic debate among economists is… …
