In 2012, candidates needed either one percent or 500 signatures (whichever was lower) from Democrats in each of the state's 50-plus congressional districts. They had two months to do so -- which, particularly if you're hoping to keep expenses under $5,000, is a time crunch. Other states work similarly; some don't.
A contemporary definition of rank-and-file is prevalent in labor union vernacular when referring to general membership and not union leaders. Rank-and-file generally means the employee doesn't occupy a high-level position within the organization.
The word classify contains the base word class, which means category and comes from the Latin classis, which actually referred to an army or group called to arms. It eventually came to mean a group, and thus classify means to group. As a security measure, you can also classify information that is not to be shared. Writer Ambrose Bierce once said, âThe small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.â