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| | The Individual and Majority Rule |
 | | The majority is the State and the State is the majority. | | | As Tocqueville realized in his diagnosis of the democratic malady, the question of the individual and majority rule cannot be separated from the more pertinent subject of the individual and the State. | | | Although Rousseau had some influence on the Founding Fathers in America, his passion concerning majority rule and majority virtue was not so readily transferable. |
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http://www.libertyhaven.com/politicsandcurrentevents/democracy/indirule.shtml
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| | Majority Rule!--America is not a country of Majority Rule. |
| | This is not a country ruled by the majority. | | | This is not a country of majority rule. | | | The majority to the South of the Mason and Dixon line established the horrible thing called slavery, and the majority north of it did likewise, and only turned reformer when slavery ceased to be profitable to them. |
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http://pages.prodigy.net/krtq73aa/reed.htm
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| | Jefferson on Politics & Government: Majority Rule |
| | "The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society." --Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Samuel Dupont de Nemours, 1816. | | | "Absolute acquiescence in the decision of the majority, the vital principle of republics, from which is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism, I deem [one of] the principles of our Government, and consequently [one of] those which ought to shape its administration." --Thomas Jefferson: 1st Inaugural, 1801. | | | Individuals exercise it by their single will; collections of men by that of their majority; for the law of the majority is the natural law of every society of men." --Thomas Jefferson: Opinion on Residence Bill, 1790. |
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http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations/jeff0500.htm
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| | Egon Flaig • Majority rule: political risks and cultural dynamics. |
| | Majority rule is a radical principle that makes all voters equal. | | | It is not only historically more accurate but simpler to deduce majority decision from the duty to follow. | | | Such confrontations have led many sociologists to judge that majority decisions emerge from conflict. |
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http://www.espacestemps.net/document205.html
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| | Majority Rule |
| | Is it possible for the majority to act unjust and unethical or are the cultural ethics and sense of justices limited to the ideologies and dogmas of the majority? | | | The ethics of truth, be it found in Holy Writ or in civil law, are not limited to majority rule. | | | Just as the activist judges that forced the dismantling of segregation, the judges of today are doing their jobs, they are protecting the civil liberties of the minority from the tyranny of the majority. |
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http://journals.aol.com/demyngeiv/SgtReedysEditorials/entries/552
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| | Majority rule on judges - The Washington Times: Editorials/OP-ED - March 17, 2005 |
| | Indeed, Republican attempts to reassert and enforce the principle of majority rule are part of an ongoing, evolutionary parliamentary give-and-take as old as the Senate itself. | | | One possibility is a parliamentary move that eliminates filibusters as a tactic to deny confirmation to judges who have majority support in the Senate. | | | Majority rule on judges - The Washington Times: Editorials/OP-ED - March 17, 2005 |
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http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20050316-084145-5699r.htm
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| | Majority Rule |
| | Instead, decisions are made by voting with a majority determining the position of the entire group. | | | This effect can be limited somewhat by rules which require super-majorities (60%, 2/3 or 3/4 for important decisions). | | | Democracy was expected to be the key that held Yugoslavia together, Touval states, but ironically, the suggests that democratic and it economic reforms appear to have fueled the conflict. |
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http://www.colorado.edu/conflict/peace/treatment/majority.htm
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| | Contents of III. THE (IN)ALIENABILITY OF MAJORITY RULE |
| | However, in 1787 once the Delaware ratifying convention voted by more than a majority to approve the new federal Constitution, the state of Delaware forever alienated its sovereignty, and the sovereignty of all future citizens of Delaware, to the people of the United States as a whole. | | | Amar then asks us to conclude that such examples support his view that previous generations viewed Article V as non-exclusive, that majority rule is an Inalienable Right, and that a majority of the people therefore have a right to amend the Constitution at any time. | | | That the right of the majority to rule is absolute and unconditional? |
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http://www.law.upenn.edu/journals/conlaw/issues/vol2/num3/king/node6_ct.html
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| | Majority Rule in Zimbabwe |
| | Britain tried to negotiate a way for the government in Southern Rhodesia to eventually allow for African majority rule, but the negotiations proved to be unsuccessful and Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith unilaterally declared Rhodesia's unilateral independence from Great Britain on November 11, 1965. | | | A 1977 UK-US plan called for majority rule, pre-independence elections, a democratic constitution, and an integrated army. | | | Increasing pressures on the Rhodesia and the Smith government continued to mount with embargo-related economic hardships, continued guerilla activity, majority rule in neighboring former Portuguese colonies, and a UK-US diplomatic initiative all bringing pressure to bear on Rhodesia. |
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http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/zimbabwe.htm
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| | Capitol Watch: Let a majority rule |
| | And then it would need approval by a majority of voters in a statewide election. | | | A resolution to ask voter approval for a constitutional amendment to do away with the supermajority requirement on some school elections has passed the House with the necessary two-thirds majority. | | | Do you favor majority rule in school elections? |
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/220169_schooled.asp
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| | Amazon.com: Minority Rights, Majority Rule : Partisanship and the Development of Congress: Books |
| | Minority Rights, Majority Rules explains why majority parties dominate in the US House of Representatives, while minorities often dominate in the Senate. | | | Minority Rights, Majority Rule seeks to explain a phenomenon evident to most observers of the U.S. Congress. | | | A Manual of Parliamentary Practice: For the Use of the Senate of the United States by Thomas Jefferson on page 1 |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0521587921?v=glance
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| | Majority Rule |
| | In contrast, in elections in which a majority is needed, a run-off election is held if no one gets a majority. | | | In this simple case of majority voting, the median or middle voter has his wants satisfied best. | | | In most jury trials in the United States, a unanimous vote is required to convict a person. |
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http://ingrimayne.saintjoe.edu/econ/government/MajorityRule.html
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| | African National Congress -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | The National Party was long dedicated to policies of apartheid and white supremacy, but by the early 1990s it had begun moving toward sharing power with South Africa's black majority. | | | Overview of the majority party in South Africa's Government of National Unity. | | | political organization of South African blacks who joined together to work for majority rule and equal rights. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?tocId=9003946&ref=news0705arc
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| | Let the Senate Majority Rule (washingtonpost.com) |
| | It is past time to restore Senate traditions and to ensure that the rules for confirming federal judges by majority vote remain the same, regardless of which party controls the White House and the Senate. | | | In his March 4 op-ed column, " 'Nuking' Free Speech," Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D-W.Va.) voiced his opposition to a plan to restore Senate traditions and the constitutional authority of a majority of senators to confirm the president's judicial nominees. | | | Byrd noted that "President Bush has renominated 20 men and women to the federal bench, seven of whom the Senate rejected last year." In fact, not one of the seven nominees to whom he referred was "rejected" by the Senate last year. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25591-2005Mar10.html
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| | Opinion: Preserving majority rule |
| | This is not the way to nominate or elect candidates who are best equipped to govern, but it was signed again into law last week. | | | For the second consecutive election, Florida now has decided that the majority won't necessarily rule. | | | The first time the primary runoff was dropped, in 2002, the reason was crassly political - to make Democrats scramble in their primary against the sitting Republican governor, Jeb Bush. |
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http://www.sptimes.com/2003/07/28/Opinion/Preserving_majority_r.shtml
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| | Majoritarianism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Advocates of majoritarianism argue that majority decision making is intrinsically democratic and that any restriction on majority decision making is intrinsically undemocratic. | | | Majoritarianism is sometimes pejoratively called ochlocracy (commonly stated as mob rule) or tyranny of the majority by its opponents. | | | Majority rule (a concept closely aligned with majoritarianism) is defined as the rule that requires more than half of a polity's members who cast a vote to agree in order for the whole polity to make a decision on the measure being voted on. |
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| | When the majority doesn't rule |
| | percent majority fell short of the 67 percent needed to pass. | | | guarded against essential rights being erased by majority vote. | | | wrote that "the electoral majority was thwarted by a tyrannical |
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| | Majority Rule or Minority Will - Compare Prices & Reviews at Smarter |
| | Adherence to Precedent on the U.S. Supreme Court | | | Home > Books > Law > General > Stare Decisis > Majority Rule or Minority Will | | | Your use of this Web site constitutes acceptance of the Smarter.com Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions |
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http://smarter.com/books-1/product/majority_rule_or_minority_will-1045107
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| | The Legacy Project: Legacy Events Index |
| | Until recently, whites dominated the nonwhite majority population under the political system of racial segregation known as apartheid, which extended and legalized white economic exploitation, political domination, and social privilege. | | | The end of apartheid led to the lifting of trade sanctions against South Africa imposed by the international community. | | | It also led to a total reorganization of the government, which since 1994 has been a nonracial democracy based on majority rule. |
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| | AllRefer.com - Sri Lanka - United National Party "Majority" Rule, 1948-56 Sri Lankan Information Resource |
| | In the election that was held immediately after Senanayake's death, the UNP, led by his son Dudley, and the SLFP, led by Bandaranaike, vied for Sinhalese votes, while the Tamil Congress and Federal Party competed for the Tamil vote. | | | The UNP won the election, and the SLFP emerged as major opposition party. | | | Prime Minister Senanayake followed the advice, but the move proved to be his political undoing. |
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http://reference.allrefer.com/country-guide-study/sri-lanka/sri-lanka37.html
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| | Majority Rule: The Tyrants Next Door by Wayne Dunn -- Capitalism Magazine |
| | In ancient Athens, for instance, a majority of voters sentenced Socrates to death because of his controversial teachings. | | | Said John Adams: "It is...as necessary to defend an individual against the majority in a democracy as against the king in a monarchy." | | | The Founding Fathers based our system not on the votes of the masses, but on the rights of the individual. |
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http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=3709
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| | The Nice: [Proposed Rule Discussion.] - Majority Vote. |
| | I move we officially raise the vote requirement to 2/3 majority. | | | This wasn't somethign I thought of, but it is an important point. | | | Several people stated that votes should require more than a simple majority (50%+) to win. |
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http://nice.purrsia.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=73&t=000232
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| | WorldNetDaily: Majority rule equals tyranny |
| | Ask yourself what day-to-day decisions would you like to be decided by majority rule? | | | Madison said, "Measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority." And he's right. | | | Our Constitution set limits on not only the power of the three branches of the federal government, it also set limits on the arbitrary will of the people that might be expressed through a majority vote. |
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| | The Guide: Summary: Are there Limits on Majority Rule? |
| | Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801 | | | After that 3/4 of the state legislatures must ratify the proposed amendment before it becomes part of the Constitution. | | | All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression. |
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| | Principles of Democracy |
| | Majority rule is a means for organizing government and deciding public issues; it is not another road to oppression. | | | This site is produced and maintained by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of International Information Programs. | | | On the surface, the principles of majority rule and the protection of individual and minority rights would seem contradictory. |
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http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/principles/majority.htm
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| | Quotes on majority rule |
| | All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate which would be oppression. | | | For the principle of majority rule is the mildest form in which the force of numbers can be exercised. | | | But it may easily become an absurd tyranny if we regard it worshipfully, as though it were more than a political device. |
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http://www.freedomsnest.com/cgi-bin/q.cgi?subject=majorityrule
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| | Majority Rule: the third author |
| | Add a third person of similar ability and permit majority decision making. | | | Mallows discovered that, with majority decisions, even adding a competent person lowers the success rate of a competent group! | | | Wright discovered that adding a low ability person to a Team (required to make unanimous decisions) lowers the success rate of the Team. |
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| | Iraqi Shiites: Majority Rule? csmonitor.com |
| | It's imperative then for Iraqi democrats shaping a new government to carefully weigh how much of a role to give Islam in civic life to ensure democracy's survival, and how much to structure a new government to both reflect and bridge this ancient religious divide among Arabs. | | | That expected political flip-flop between the two main branches of Islam will catch the eye of other Arab states as much as the grand experiment to create a full Arab democracy. | | | But then, as a result, Iraq's long tradition of the minority Sunni Muslims ruling over the majority Shiites will likely come to an end. |
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| | Dohiyi Mir: Majority Rule |
| | Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Majority Rule: | | | If anybody actually is visiting here from the Majority Report site, please say hello in comments and/or leave your pin on my guestmap. | | | Hee hee, check this out from The Majority Report Radio blog: |
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http://www.dohiyimir.org/2005/06/majority_rule.html
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