Meaning of Gerrymander | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The act of gerrymandering.
   derogatory
2. A voting district skewed by gerrymandering.
   derogatory

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Examples

“Any citizen looking at a map of district 12 could immediately tell that it was a gerrymander because of the ridiculous way it cut across four counties while carving up neighborhoods in half.”

“The sensibility of the good people of Massachusetts is at present too much awakened to this ‘Gerrymander’ to require [etc.].”

“The Senate proposed an election by Congressional or Gerrymander districts, which was refused by the house, as a novel as well as unfair mode of election; […]”

“A bill to repeal the Law for Diſtricting the State for the Choice for Senators, and Repreſentatives to Congreſs [commonly called the Gerrymander diſtricts law] paſſed to be engroſſed.”

“We published our last paper under uncommon sensations of pleasure, on account of the triumph of the Friends of Peace and good principles in this Gerrymander district, formed by their opponents while they possessed the legislative power of the state, with a view to secure themselves in the senate, and control the Congressional election.”

“Some returns from democratic towns are not made conformable to the Gerrymander law of last February.”

“Ontario County.—We have all the returns from this county, federal majority one thousand and thirty-four—It is part of a Gerrymander district, but the federal candidates we have no doubt are chosen.”

“Gentlemen have surely heard of the Senatorial districts of Massachusetts; […] They were called Gerrymanders, from the name of the gentleman who was then at the head of the faction which produced the shapeless brood.”

“It is also proposed to amend the law by which the agrarians cut the State into Gerrymander districts for members of Congress.”

“What authority has the ‘Appeal’ for saying that the Gerrymander district in Ohio is a “whig made district of ten years standing?””

“To accomplish this Gerrymander the districts in Massachusetts are laid off in such a form as to make the Ohio Districts perfect beauties with them—one of the Massachusetts districts is said to have thirty-nine angles and curves on its boundary line.”

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