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  1. Utgard96

    A House Divided: A TL

    Some day. I don’t think I’ve started the next update, and it might be a while seeing as how I’ve got other projects at the moment. But I’m not going to leave it three chapters away from the act break forever, rest assured.
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    OTL Election maps resources thread

    In Roberval it's probably in large part because that's Couillard's seat.
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    A Guide, Resource, and Repository of Could-have-been Ideologies for your Alternate History

    What you’re describing is direct democracy, isn’t it?
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    A Guide, Resource, and Repository of Could-have-been Ideologies for your Alternate History

    Presumably it means the President of the Church, or the local bishop in a smaller community, goes into a room and comes out a little while later announcing what God thinks should happen.
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    A House Divided: A TL

    He can't go into the chamber, because Charles I arresting five members and Cromwell's repeated dissolutions established the precedent that The Monarch Or The Military Do Not Enter The House Without Permission, as seen at the start of the Queen's Speech ritual where the Black Rod gets the door...
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    A House Divided: A TL
    Threadmarks: #33: All Thine Shall Be the Subject Main

    A House Divided #33: All Thine Shall Be the Subject Main “I do not feel myself at liberty, holding the opinions that I do, now to resort to what may have been, at other seasons, the necessary and legitimate tactics of party. When I see the government indisposed to maintain the rights of...
  7. Utgard96

    A House Divided: A TL

    As a hint: there are three updates left in this act. This will be covered in two updates' time. This will be covered in three updates' time.
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    A House Divided: A TL

    I can guarantee you he won't come to power ITTL, but the details will have to wait for the "where are they now" chapter. Yeah, there's not exactly a rich flora of names to choose from, is there? The end of the Constitutional Convention and the resulting settlement will be covered in the next...
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    A House Divided: A TL
    Threadmarks: #32: Do You Hear the People Sing?

    A House Divided #32: Do You Hear the People Sing? “A man lives in order to be useful to the people. And the value of a man is determined by his usefulness to his fellow human beings. To be born, to live, eat, drink, and finally die – an insect can do this as well.” *** Palais du Luxembourg...
  10. Utgard96

    OTL Map Thread Mk IV., 2014-

    XrysD, Tschubby and the two guys who do election maps are my favourite Wikipedians.
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    OTL Election maps resources thread

    I always despise the state legislative districts in Adams County, mainly because DIA completely fucks up the boundaries around it. But this is actually a decent way of getting around it. Brighton does probably belong more with Weld County than the rest of Adams as well.
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    OTL Election maps resources thread

    From my experience mapping Colorado elections from the 19th century, I'm mostly just amazed none of NH's floterial districts overlap with one another.
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    OTL Election maps resources thread

    Lon is the best name.
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    OTL Election maps resources thread

    For me it's mostly because I'm gradually moving all my stuff over to the SLP forum, and this was the easiest thing to start doing there.
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    OTL Election maps resources thread

    The ones coloured in are presumably the ones with at least one polling station, so use that as a guide.
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    OTL Election maps resources thread

    You see that quite a lot with Greens, for whatever reason.
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    The Year of Broken Promises - A Finnish Timeline

    I can absolutely imagine Kekkonen having nightmares about doctors cutting his balls off.
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    OTL Election maps resources thread

    No, I just accidentally wrote 122 instead of 112.
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    OTL Election maps resources thread

    FTR, the absolute majority figure is 122. Malaysia is in for interesting times, methinks.
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