It works well in Scotland and now, with PR for Scottish local elections, it breaks up the old Labour rotten boroughs. |
When the rival Norman and Anglo-Saxon boroughs amalgamated into a single administration, we cannot say. |
There were recurrent scutages and tallages on demesnes, which included boroughs. |
Western democracies have had their own experience of rotten boroughs and tribal strongholds. |
It boasts well-staffed bureaus in Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx, and publishes special zoned editions for those boroughs. |
The corn laws were repealed, the rotten boroughs were redistricted and the Whigs became credible contenders for power. |