Crossword-Solution: GERRYMANDERING
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Gerrymandering | p. pr. & vb. n. | of Gerrymander |
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| GERRYMANDERING | anagram | MERRYGANDERING |
We have 1 clue for the answer “GERRYMANDERING”
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| the process of redistricting voting boundaries to benefit one group over another | 1 answer |
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Sentences with GERRYMANDERING (5)
Elridge Gerry, a distinguished politician at that period, was the inventor of that plan, which was called Gerrymandering, after him.—Glossary of Americanisms.
Often gerrymandering [Footnote: The origin and nature of "gerrymandering" are discussed in Chapter XLII, Sections 542 and 543.] is resorted to, that is to say, congressional districts are so arranged as to give the minority party overwhelming majorities in a few districts, while the dominant party is allowed to carry the remaining districts by very small majorities.
GERRYMANDERING.--The result of this illegitimate redistricting has been to create districts of great irregularity.
The Croats found themselves no match for the astute Magyars who resorted to packed diets, gerrymandering, bribery, and forgery.
Balfour's scheme did not involve a political rearrangement of boundaries, and the word "gerrymandering" was thus incorrectly employed in relation to it, but so long as we retain a system of single-member constituencies a Redistribution Bill will always invite suspicion because of the possibilities of influencing the arrangement of constituencies which such a measure affords.
Quotes with GERRYMANDERING (2)
What's historically been referred to as 'gerrymandering' can more aptly be labeled an incumbent protection program.
We have always policed the bodies of people of color, and black people in particular. The Jim Crow South is a classic example. White flight in the North. School segregation. Gerrymandering.