英语词汇“virtual representation”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

virtual representation n. political representation of a group or constituency who have not voted, or are not permitted to vote, for those who represent them; the (theoretical) political representation of people who are disenfranchised; cf. actual representation n. at actual adj. and n. Compounds.Originally and chiefly with reference to the lack of actual representation in Parliament for inhabitants of the British colonies, especially in colonial America.

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1765 D. Dulany Considerations Taxes in Brit. Colonies 6 Where have They defined, or precisely explained what They mean by the Expression, Virtual Representation? As it is the very Hinge upon which the Rectitude of the Taxation turns, something more satisfactory than mere Assertion..is necessary.

1839 Mirror of Parl. (2nd Sess., 14th Parl.) 2 1499/1 You struck down, by the Reform Bill, the notion of a virtual representation, but you have not given a real representation in its stead.

1960 L. M. Thompson Unification S. Afr. iii. 115 This is the old argument of ‘virtual representation’, which had been used by Britain against her North American colonies in the eighteenth century and by opponents of parliamentary reform in Britain in the nineteenth century.

2008 Austral. Financial Rev. (Nexis) 26 Sept. 23 Just as Americans then dismissed the notion of ‘virtual representation’ by the English, US politicians are ensuring that Paulson is not handed a blank cheque and that taxpayers gain equity representation in a bail-out of Wall Street funded by them.

单词	virtual representation
释义	> as lemmas virtual representation virtual representation n. political representation of a group or constituency who have not voted, or are not permitted to vote, for those who represent them; the (theoretical) political representation of people who are disenfranchised; cf. actual representation n. at actual adj. and n. Compounds.Originally and chiefly with reference to the lack of actual representation in Parliament for inhabitants of the British colonies, especially in colonial America. ΚΠ 1765 D. Dulany Considerations Taxes in Brit. Colonies 6 Where have They defined, or precisely explained what They mean by the Expression, Virtual Representation? As it is the very Hinge upon which the Rectitude of the Taxation turns, something more satisfactory than mere Assertion..is necessary. 1839 Mirror of Parl. (2nd Sess., 14th Parl.) 2 1499/1 You struck down, by the Reform Bill, the notion of a virtual representation, but you have not given a real representation in its stead. 1960 L. M. Thompson Unification S. Afr. iii. 115 This is the old argument of ‘virtual representation’, which had been used by Britain against her North American colonies in the eighteenth century and by opponents of parliamentary reform in Britain in the nineteenth century. 2008 Austral. Financial Rev. (Nexis) 26 Sept. 23 Just as Americans then dismissed the notion of ‘virtual representation’ by the English, US politicians are ensuring that Paulson is not handed a blank cheque and that taxpayers gain equity representation in a bail-out of Wall Street funded by them. extracted from virtualadj.n. < as lemmas
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