Curious voice

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Curia vote ( Latin curia - curia, assembly) is a vote that is shared by several voters in an election or vote and that they can only cast as one. If there is no unanimity among them, the voters must first agree on their joint vote.

Historically the most significant example of curiate votes are the votes that could be cast by a curia at the early modern Reichstag or at state assemblies. This affected some "lower" groups of imperial estates: The simple prelates , divided into a Rhenish and Swabian prelate bank , had, for example, B. at the Diets in the Holy Roman Empire two curiate votes. The counts and the counts who were prince after 1582 also had a total of only four curiate votes in the Imperial Council , divided into a Franconian , Swabian , Westphalian and Wetterau count bank.

In the Federal Assembly of the German Confederation , the smaller federal states and the free cities were also combined into several overall votes, which could only be cast as a curate vote, in votes in the Senate Council .

The opposite of the curiate voice is the virile voice .

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