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Wat (wie) is rotten borough - definitie

BRITISH CONSTITUENCY DOMINATED BY A SINGLE PROPRIETOR
Pocket burough; Pocket borough; Rotten Borough; Rotten boroughs; Pocket Borough; Rotten burrough; Rotten Boroughs; List of rotten boroughs; Rotten borough; Rotten & pocket boroughs; Rottenborough; Pocketborough; List of pocket boroughs; Close borough; Borough-monger; Boroughmonger; Nomination borough; Treasury borough; Pocket boroughs; Pocket Boroughs

rotten borough         
¦ noun Brit. (before the Reform Act of 1832) a borough that was able to elect an MP though having very few voters.
Boroughmonger         
·noun One who buys or sells the parliamentary seats of boroughs.
pocket borough         
¦ noun historical (in the UK) a borough in which the election of political representatives was controlled by one person or family.

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Rotten and pocket boroughs

A rotten or pocket borough, also known as a nomination borough or proprietorial borough, was a parliamentary borough or constituency in England, Great Britain, or the United Kingdom before the Reform Act 1832, which had a very small electorate and could be used by a patron to gain unrepresentative influence within the unreformed House of Commons. The same terms were used for similar boroughs represented in the 18th-century Parliament of Ireland. The Reform Act 1832 abolished the majority of these rotten and pocket boroughs.

Voorbeelden uit tekstcorpus voor rotten borough
1. In the opening episode of the third series, Blackadder decides to buy the rotten borough of Dunny–on–the–Wold by treating its one voter, a farmer, with bribes of hen food, dog biscuits and cow ointment.