Sentences with phrase «political minority»

In keeping with the Framer's vision, this system still elevates the voice and status of smaller states by maintaining the same distribution of Electoral votes for each state, while also giving a voice to political minorities in each state by distributing electoral votes to the candidates who lost the popular vote in each state.

The treaty also granted certain rights for political minorities on either side of the border, which may also be significant for those now thinking of the secession of Scotland from the UK.

Each of her projects investigates strategies and discourses of resistance as elaborated, developed, and narrated by individuals, often members of political minorities.

Stifling this discussion on campus is a disservice to our peers in the campus political minority, and to our own educational growth.

Because states would be drawn to maximize the number of the predominant political persuasion and minimize the number of those in the political minority, each state would have overwhelming consensus on political decisions, and relatively few people would have to be governed in a way they find objectionable.

Critics argue the law suppresses free speech and makes South Korea like its northern counterpart, known for its human rights abuses and oppression of religious and political minorities.

In secular states like India a religious minority community need not be a political minority.

The position might also interest Mr. Romaine as he nears the county term limit, and has spent each of his terms in the political minority on the Legislature.

I think this is because rural people are a political minority in all but five states and are not well organized enough to articulate their perspectives in state policy - making arenas.

For at least a generation, standing up for them has been a political minority sport.