Sentences with word «majoritarian»

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.

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.

This argument is almost always rejected, as we have an understanding that majoritarian culture already reflects established patterns of dominance.

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.

As Douglas W. Rae points out in the standard reference work The Political Consequences of Electoral Laws, majoritarian electoral systems are extremely rare for multi-seat legislatures, only being well established in Australia, and for second round voting in some French elections.

Muslims suspicious that the secular nationalism of the Congress was a disguise for Hindu majoritarian rule demanded and eventually received a separate state, Pakistan.

Or perhaps are you asking if there are safeguards in the US constitution to protect atheists from majoritarian policies that discriminate against them?

Finally, lying behind much of the above is an implicit majoritarian position: minorities should bow to the views of the majority.

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.

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.»

Without a claim to objective morality, these principles become mere majoritarian preferences.

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.

Another massive mistake was to allow Kroenke to become majoritarian shareholders.

Finally there are the progressive majoritarians who believe the best outcome to be a Lab - Lib coalition.

(It seems to me, by the way, that the authority of Courts, such as it is, depends also upon this «dangerous idea,» so perhaps Weisberg, if he were being consistent, would have to favor some form of majoritarian tyranny, as articulated by the political branches.)

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....

Effective constitutions have built in safeguards to prevent majoritarian excesses by democratically elected governments for this reason.

In 2014, marijuana legalisation received majoritarian support of voters in Alaska, Oregon and Washington DC.

The Fixed - term Parliaments Act is one of the few surviving elements of the Coalition's ambitious programme of constitutional reform, which — had it been fully implemented — would have altered the UK's majoritarian vision of democracy and elections extensively.

I do think the case that FPTP as a working majoritarian system is very weak: those who back this should now be arguing for a directly elected PM or government, presumably using the London Mayoral system.

The system you describe is called and individual majoritarian election, generally referred to as «first - past - the - post.»

The difficulty is real when the laws being invalidated actually reflect majoritarian preferences.

To the minority, even though most parliamentary business is organized on majoritarian principle, the time - honored rights of minority to open, frank, fair and honest debate so as to make your case and offer constructive alternatives will be respected under my stewardship.

Indeed, it is majoritarian where FPTP is not.

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

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

It would be a mistake to think that the consequences of majoritarian rights talk in focusing our attention on those who benefit and away from those harmed is limited to rights dealing with violent outcomes.

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

Majoritarian governments have also produced unexpected results in recent years.

Having all one's parliamentary houses elected in this manner, even if their powers were separated, would reduce friction of the system and move it more towards direct majoritarian rule.

Greater responsibility of the executive to Parliament demands less majoritarian styles of governance.

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.

«This common experience of the immense majority of Americans ought to be the basis for a winning majoritarian working - class politics.

I now think there is both a strategic / pragmatic case for AV, but also (in the right broader reform package) a good argument for it being good to have a pluralist majoritarian system for the Commons, within an entrenched written constitution and with a PR - elected second chamber.

One of the reasons that may explain this negative outcome is the fact that many citizens are actually advantaged by the current majoritarian electoral rules.

Moreover, the results may explain why citizens» assessment of their political system is generally similar across majoritarian and PR electoral systems even if we observe greater levels of votes - seats proportionality in PR systems.

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.

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.

This position has been critiqued on the basis that the courts» views of approved social purposes are often heteronormative or otherwise majoritarian (see e.g. Ummni Khan, Vicarious Kinks: S / M in the Socio - legal Imaginary (University of Toronto Press, 2014).

«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.»

Though our understanding of religious freedom originated and developed from certain majoritarian perspectives on what religion is, how it is lived and practiced in people's lives and what constitutes an infringement of religion, the text of section 2 (a) of Charter is broad enough to incorporate an understanding of protected religious practice that is generous and expansive.

In proportional representation (PR) systems the influence of the floating voter is less than in first - past - the - post majoritarian systems typical in neo-liberal market economies such as Britain and the US.

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.

McDonnell is also turning his attention to the prospect of parliamentary battles this autumn, pledging to make life difficult for the Conservatives in the Commons after winning a «majoritarian position» on issues such as scrapping the public sector pay cap.