found: Work cat.: United States. Congress. Senate. Judiciary Committee. Electing the President, 1969:p. 176 (direct election of the President by popular vote was proposed as early as 1816; the preferential vote has been used successfully at state level)
found: The Middle East, Central Asia and South Asia, 2002:p. 114 (in March 2001, the parliament abolished direct election and re-established the indirect prime-ministerial election by the Knesset)
found: Parliamentary versus presidential government, 1992:p. 194 (direct election of a prime minister awards electoral choice to the voter)
found: The reader's companion to the United States Congress, 2004:p. 421 (after the 17th Amendment passed, the U.S. Senate was still not fully a popularly-elected body until the terms of the last senators chosen by state legislatures expired after the 1918 elections)
found: Wikipedia, July 5, 2006:direct election (Direct election is a term describing a system of choosing political officeholders in which the voters directly cast ballots for the person, persons or political party that they desire to see elected; the method by which the winner or winners of a direct election are chosen depends upon the electoral system used--most commonly used systems are the plurality system and the two round system for single winner elections, such as a presidential election, and party-list proportional representation for the election of a legislature)
found: This America, 2005:p. 32 (Universal participation in control does not mean, as it has come to mean in America, direct election of federal, state and local representatives)
