Sentences with phrase «against majoritarian»

Furthermore, in meeting this duty, which includes «to protect the client as far as possible from being convicted», [3] the lawyer demonstrates courage because of the difficulty of going against majoritarian societal views.

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Even People for the American Way, an organization formed to war against the moral majoritarians, admitted as much in a study of textbooks a while back.

Richard Posner, a judge of the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, in a New York Times op - ed co-authored December 2 with Law Professor Eric Segall, takes Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia to task for threatening America with a «majoritarian theocracy» because of his repeated dissents, since Lawrence v. Texas, against the expansion of homosexual «rights» as a matter of Constitutional solicitude.

I mean, how ironic is it that you cite restrictions on speech as being justified by concerns over majoritarian bullying — I mean, geeze, is that not exactly the complaint against universities in the various disputes over pro-life clubs.