On Jun 8, 2007, at 1:38 PM, KAREN ALLEN wrote:
The general understanding, both in the UCCC debate of the issue, and
with CPN, was that we had to send three nominees. I don't know
whether there was ever any explicit statement from UCD that sending
one would result in denial, but that was definitely inferred from
UCD's insistence to have three nominees.
11. The same act [is] to provide that grand-jurymen may be chosen by
and for several parts or divisions of each county respectively, in some
equal way ...; and that such grand-jurymen for their respective
counties may at each assize present the names of persons to be made
justices of the peace from time to time, as the county hath need for
any to be added to the commission; and at the summer assize [they are]
to present the names of three persons, out of whom the king may prick
one to be sheriff for the next year.
- http://constitution.org/sech/sech_102.htm
It's the best reference I can find off the cuff. It was standard
practice in the middle ages into early modern. And continued, for
instance, in the current procedure for picking a new senator from
Wyoming.
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Kirk Wattles
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