On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 01:41:55PM +0100, Roland Mas wrote:
> Richard Braakman (2003-03-09 05:45:26 +0200) :
> > Branden Robinson ended his part of the 2003 DPL debate with this
> > message:
> >
> > I'd like everybody to make as informed a decision as they can
> > when voting, and to please exercise their franchise. Only you
> > can make the system work.
It means "please vote".
2. (Law) A particular privilege conferred by grant from a
sovereign or a government, and vested in individuals; an
imunity or exemption from ordinary jurisdiction; a
constitutional or statutory right or privilege, esp. the
right to vote.
Election by universal suffrage, as modified by the
Constitution, is the one crowning franchise of the
American people. --W. H. Seward.
If you hadn't noticed, "exercise" rhymes with "franchise". I'm sorry I
have no cleverer defense of my choice of words. :)
--
G. Branden Robinson | If God had intended for man to go
Debian GNU/Linux | about naked, we would have been
branden@debian.org | born that way.
http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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