Re: As Is (was: Re: Concurrency)

On Mon, 24 Dec 2001, jogloran wrote:

> Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> <<
>
> Canton: in France, the subdivision of a department, mainly there for
> purpose of
> parlementary elections: each canton is represented by a Member of
> Parlement
> (a "député" in French). Apart from that, I can't think of any power
> that the
> canton has. I don't even know whether they have an administration or
> not.
>
> >>
>
> Sounds like a plain old fashioned Australian "electorate".
Except that `the Electorate' means all Australian voters. `The Electorate
has/have voted the Liberal Party in.'

And what exactly is a commonwealth?

Tristan