Sentences with phrase «by majoritarian»

In the same way that the Court has found infringements on the free marketplace of the ideas justifiable in some contexts, universities should be aware that intellectual bullying is frequently used by majoritarian groups on campuses to squelch dissent of the minority views.

I take it that having bamboozled you way into a majority it will all be majoritarian when it comes to actually inflicting your progressive Reich on us act by majoritarian act

Multiculturalists are concerned about the domination of cultural or religious minorities by their majoritarian counterparts.

Opposing views of right and wrong are best addressed and accommodated in a democratic political debate, with the judiciary serving the vital but secondary role of ensuring that basic rights are protected to prevent oppression of minorities by majoritarian rule.

Not exact matches

By: Jennifer Koshan PDF Version: «Majoritarian Blind Spot»?

We will discredit it by giving a monopoly on religiously informed political action to the most strident moral majoritarians who show few signs of understanding the problems and promises inherent in the American experiment.»

The results of these and other Supreme Court decisions call to mind the warning issued by Justice Arthur I Goldberg (no Moral Majoritarian, he) some 25 years ago in the School Prayer Cases.

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.

Georgian parliamentary selection has two categories: seats allocated on the proportion of votes gained by the various parties, and seats allocated by plurality of votes in territorially defined majoritarian districts.

In 1993, backed by a popular referendum, Italy switches from a PR system to a majoritarian one.

Although this from of governance is often buttressed by populist, majoritarian justifications, the recent elections in Armenia, Kenya, Venezuela, Malaysia, Cambodia, and Zimbabwe brought into question the legitimacy of not only the supposed winners, but also the entire social and political system that enabled these disputed victories to occur.

The alternative is to have it imposed upon all corners of society all at once by raw political, majoritarian will.

He noted that ``... one could object that the general principles of majoritarian democracy do not sit well in an Aboriginal context, where the prevalent tradition (at least among many First Nations) is to rule by consensus...».

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.

If they do not, however, then their invalidation by courts, can force democratic institutions to act in accordance with majoritarian preferences which they previously ignored.

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.