election

n. choosing; voting for a political candidate

An election is a decision making process where people choose people to hold official offices. This is the usual mechanism by which modern democracy fills offices in the legislature, sometimes in the executive and judiciary, and for regional and local government. This is also typically the case in a wide range of other private and business organizations, from clubs to voluntary associations and corporations. However, as Montesquieu points out in Book II, Chapter 2 of "The Spirit of Laws," in the case of elections in either a republic or a democracy, voters alternate between being the rulers of the country as well as being the subjects of the government, with the act of voting being the sovereign (or ruling) capacity, in which the people act as "masters" selecting their government "servants." Rather, the unique characteristics of democracies and republics is the recognition that the only legitimate source of power for government "of the people, by the people, and for the people" is the consent of the governed -- the people themselves.
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n. election, poll; voting; choice

(a.)
Those who are elected.
  

(a.)
The choice, made by a party, of two alternatives, by taking one of which, the chooser is excluded from the other.
  

(a.)
The act of choosing; choice; selection.
  

(a.)
The act of choosing a person to fill an office, or to membership in a society, as by ballot, uplifted hands, or viva voce; as, the election of a president or a mayor.
  

(a.)
Power of choosing; free will; liberty to choose or act.
  

(a.)
Divine choice; predestination of individuals as objects of mercy and salvation; -- one of the "five points" of Calvinism.
  

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Discriminating choice; discernment.
  

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