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CAUCUS , a See also:political See also:term used in See also:America of a See also:special See also:form of party See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting, and in See also:Great See also:Britain of a See also:system of party organization. The word originated in See also:Boston, See also:Massachusetts, in the See also:early See also:part of the 18th See also:century, when it was used as the name of a political See also:club, the " Caucus " or " Caucas " club. Here public matters were discussed, and arrangements made for See also:local elections and the choosing of candidates for offices. The first mention of the club in contemporary documents occurs in the See also:diary of See also:John See also:- ADAMS
- ADAMS, ANDREW LEITH (1827-1882)
- ADAMS, CHARLES FRANCIS (1807-1886)
- ADAMS, HENRY (1838— )
- ADAMS, HENRY CARTER (1852— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT (i858— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT BAXTER (1850—1901)
- ADAMS, JOHN (1735–1826)
- ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY (1767-1848)
- ADAMS, SAMUEL (1722-1803)
- ADAMS, THOMAS (d. c. 1655)
- ADAMS, WILLIAM (d. 162o)
Adams in 1763, but See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Gordon (See also:History of the See also:Independence of the See also:United States of America, 1788) speaks of the Caucus as having been in existence some fifty years before the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of See also:writing (1774), and describes the methods used for securing the See also:election of the candidates the club had selected. The derivation of the word has been much disputed. It was early connected with " caulkers," and it was supposed referred to meetings of the caulkers in the dockyard at Boston in 1770, to protest against the See also:action of the See also:British troops, or with a contemptuous allusion to the See also:lower class of workmen frequenting the club. This is, however, a See also:mere guess, and does not agree with the earlier date at which the club is known to have existed, nor with the accounts given of it. That it was a fanciful classical name for a convivial club, derived from the See also:late See also:Greek Kaunos, a See also:cup, is far-fetched, and the most plausible origin is an See also:Algonquin word See also:kaw-kaw-was, meaning to talk. See also:Indian words and names have been popular in America as titles for See also:societies and clubs; cf. " Tammany " (see Notes and Queries. See also:sixth See also:series, vols. xi. and xii.). In the United States "caucus" is used strictly of a meeting either of party managers or of party voters. Such might be a " nominating caucus," either for nominating candidates for See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office or for selecting delegates for a nominating See also:convention. The caucus of the party in See also:Congress nominated the candidates for the offices of See also:president and See also:vice-president from 1800 till 1824, when the convention system was adopted, and the See also:place of the local nominating caucus " is taken by the " primaries " and conventions. The word is used in America of the meetings of a party in Congress and other legislative bodies and elsewhere which decide matters of policy and See also:plan See also:campaigns. " Caucus " came first into use in Great Britain in 1878. The Liberal Association of See also:Birmingham (see LIBERAL PARTY) was organized by Mr See also:Joseph See also:- CHAMBERLAIN (0. Fr. chamberlain, chamberlenc, Mod. Fr. chambellan, from O. H. Ger. Chamarling, Chamarlinc, whence also the Med. Lat. cambellanus, camerlingus, camerlengus; Ital. camerlingo; Span. camerlengo, compounded of 0. H. Ger. Chamara, Kamara [Lat.
- CHAMBERLAIN, JOSEPH (1836— )
- CHAMBERLAIN, JOSHUA LAWRENCE (1828– )
- CHAMBERLAIN, SIR NEVILLE BOWLES (1820-1902)
Chamberlain and Mr F. Schnadhorst on strict disciplinary lines, more particularly with a view to election management and the See also:control of voters on the principle of See also:vote as you are told." This managing See also:body of the association, known locally as the " Six See also:Hundred," became the See also:model for other Liberal associations throughout the See also:country, and the Federation of Liberal Associations was organized on the same plan. It was to this supposed See also:imitation of the See also:American political " See also:machine " that See also:Lord See also:Beaconsfield gave the name " caucus," and the name came to be used, not in the American sense of a meeting, but of a closely disciplined system of party organization, chiefly used as a stock term of abuse applied by opponents to each other's party machinery.
CAUDEBEC-EN-CAUX, a See also:town of See also:France, in the See also:department of See also:Seine-Inferieure, 27 M. W.N.W. of See also:Rouen by the Ouest-Etat railway. Pop. (roo6) 2141. It is situated on the right See also:bank of the Seine, the tidal See also:wave of which (mascaret) can be well seen at this point. The See also:chief See also:interest of the town lies in its See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church, a See also:building of the 15th and the early 16th centuries. See also:Round its See also:top run balustrades formed of See also:Gothic letters, which read as part of the Magnifict. Its See also:west portal, the decoration of the See also:spire of the See also:tower, and its stained See also:glass are among the features whichmake it one of the finest churches of the Rouen See also:diocese. The town also possesses several old houses. Its See also:industries include tanning and See also:leather-currying, and there is See also:trade in See also:grain. The See also:port has a small trade in See also:coal, live-stock and See also:farm produce.
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