Brewer's: Appeal to the Country

(An). Asking electors by their choice of representatives to express their opinion of some moot question. In order to obtain the public opinion Parliament is dissolved, and a new election must be made.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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