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16:16 Jan 27, 2003 |
German to English translations [PRO] Art/Literary - Government / Politics / politics | |||||||
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| Selected response from: Teresa Reinhardt United States Local time: 00:54 | ||||||
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contrary to the former practice of dividing power proportionately Explanation: (among the different groups) is a literal translation; I'm sure you can make an elegant sentence out of it all -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 2003-01-27 17:12:44 (GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Arithmetic (vs. geometric) simply means proportionate (vs. exponential, e.g.) -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 2003-02-01 14:17:25 (GMT) Post-grading -------------------------------------------------- William, here\'s an attempt at clarification: Let\'s say, tribe A is 40% of the population, tribe B 20%, tribe C 5%, and so on. The seats on the tribal council (or whatever organ, parliament, etc.) used to be distributed according to the tribes\' shares of the population (just like our parties...sort of). So the Aians got 40% of the seats, the Bians 20%, etc. Make sense? Quite democratic, if I may say so.... |
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11 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
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