Crossword-Solution: PLEBISCITE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Plebiscite | n. | A vote by universal male suffrage; especially, in France, a popular vote, as first sanctioned by the National Constitution of 1791. |
We have 8 clues for the answer “PLEBISCITE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Decision of a whole people by direct voting | 1 answer |
| Important vote. | 1 answer |
| One allows people to have their say | 1 answer |
| REFERENDUM | 3 answers |
| A VOTE BY THE ELECTORATE DETERMINING PUBLIC OPINION ON A QUESTION OF NATIONAL IMPORTANCE | 11 answers |
| BALLOT ___ | 25 answers |
| Vote | 43 answers |
| Edict | 71 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PLEBISCITE (5)
Congress is not a safe vessel for extraordinary powers, because in our system we have difficulty in bringing it definitely to an account under any sort of plebiscite.
All the others vote as if directed with a baton; they have understood the secret of the plebiscite; that it is a Jacobin demonstration, not an honest vote, which is required.[1120] The operation undertaken by the local party is actually carried out.
Experience indeed, had shown that, for a long time, the masses were disgusted with the plebiscite farces; moreover, terror has stifled in individuals all sentiment of a common interest;[5114] each cares for himself alone.
Through this comedy played by him above, and through another complementary comedy which he plays below, the plebiscite, he transforms his ten-year consulate into a consulate for life, and then into an empire, that is to say, into a permanent, legal, full, and perfect dictatorship.
The plebiscite, undoubtedly, as well as the election of deputies to the Corps Legislatif are simply comedies; but, in these comedies, one rôle is as good as another and the duke of the old or new pattern, a mere figurant among hundreds and thousands of others, votes only once like the corner-grocer.
Quotes with PLEBISCITE (1)
The test of an economic system lies in the choices it offers, the alternatives that are open to the people living under it. When choices are limited by coercion of one sort or another, the system must fall short of meeting the test in greater or less degree. The virtue of a free system — i.e., competitive capitalism — is that it allows energy to flow uncoerced into a thousand-and-one different forms, expanding goods, services, and jobs in a myriad, unpredictable ways. Every d…
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1968).