Sentences with phrase «want equal representation»

We all know that in our representative democracy, it's important that legislative districts contain more or less the same number of people; we all want equal representation.

But black teachers wanted equal representation by race even though they made up a third of the teacher population.

Not exact matches

Governance (which, as explained in my previous piece, implies the deconstruction of modern - style government, of the social contract and of the value of representation): Africans want to be treated as equals; they are not sure that «democracy» is the way to go: democracy tends to break their traditions and so far hasn't delivered order and socioeconomic progress.

In the same way we won't be consulted on membership of the EU, they don't want to ask the English question because they fear the people will give the «wrong» answer, in this case that would be demanding equal funding, recognition and representation.

California wants to make sure that both spouses in a divorce have equal access to legal representation.