Sentences with phrase «from majoritarian»
Finally, certain groups, indeed largely the same groups, have historically been «relegated to such a position of political powerlessness as to command extraordinary protection from the majoritarian political process.»
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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.
Their public majority has been stolen right out from under them and they live their lives in bitterness and insecurity, chasing after the safety that comes from holding the majoritarian position.
The switch from discretionary election timing to fixed term Parliaments makes a significant change to the majoritarian traditions of government in the UK.
If the UK is to emerge intact and as a functioning polity from its current crisis of legitimacy, it must find more equitable and fairer ways of representing the interests of a greater proportion of the electorate, not revert to the majoritarian distortions that are fuelling the current crisis.
In 1993, backed by a popular referendum, Italy switches from a PR system to a majoritarian one.
The law shifted the basis for allocating votes to seats from a winner - takes - all majoritarian logic to a more proportional logic.
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.
«Looking at the opinions the individual judges wrote last year (as distinct from judgments they simply signed on to without comment) Chief Justice McLachlin and Justice Charron were the most solid majoritarians in the sense that they did the least concurring and dissenting, both wrote a total of nine majority or unanimous opinions, and Justice Charron wrote more unanimous judgments than anyone else — five.»
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.