Sentences with phrase «majority of voters describe»

Besides, in a nation in which the great majority of voters describe themselves as religious, religious belief will usually be the background — even if frequently unstated — of our policy debates.

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They include: the command of the sovereign; the majority of the voters; the principle of utility; the Supreme Court's varying interpretations of the Constitution's great but ambiguous phrases; the subtle implications of platitudinous shared values like «equality» or «autonomy»; and even a hypothetical social contract that abstract persons might adopt in the imaginary «original position» described by John Rawls.

Each election, they invent names such as «Essex man» or «Worcester woman'to describe archetypal voters representative of marginal constituencies necessary to win a parliamentary majority.

In the court's majority opinion, Kagan described the two - part analysis utilized by the high court when plaintiffs allege racial gerrymandering as follows: «First, the plaintiff must prove that «race was the predominant factor motivating the legislature's decision to place a significant number of voters within or without a particular district.»