Sentences with phrase «majoritarian governments»

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When the constitutional mandate is sufficiently clear from the text, the understanding of the framers, or the structure of constitutional government, it removes certain matters from popular control and majoritarian rule.

This legislation puts into principle that majoritarian beliefs are more deserving of legal protection, and that minority viewpoints are deserving of government harassment.

He means no totalitarian or merely majoritarian democracy, but limited government, grounded in a tradition of sound habits, associations, and institutions.

But there are different objectives here.One case for majoritarian systems is that they offer a clearer choice of governments; the central case for PR is about the representativeness of the assembly.

A majoritarian system like FPTP or AV is OK for choosing a government, so long as the power that the government can exercise is itself constrained by some form of democratic proportionality.

The switch from discretionary election timing to fixed term Parliaments makes a significant change to the majoritarian traditions of government in the UK.

Finally, while party rivalry is generally intense in the majoritarian and adversarial British political system, the 2010 - 15 coalition government and the relatively close majority after the 2015 general election meant additional competitive pressures.

Rather it is the majoritarian culture on those campus use the traditional tools of majority power (elected student governments, for example) to silence what is an unpopular minority.

By contrast, especially in recent years, the tendency in majoritarian countries has been for governments to prefer to work with their own politically appointed advisers and to ignore the unpalatable advice of technically neutral civil servants where this is judged to interfere with the chances of electoral success or political expediency.