W. de Klerk's government brought most white South Africans reluctantly round to the idea of black majority rule.
This sense of having a mandate encouraged Morales to exercise power based on the simple principle of majority rule.
Board of Education, ending school segregation, civil-rights activists came to see courts as the solution to the abuses of majority rule.
Now that majority rule prevails, however, South African democracy would be greatly strengthened if the left and right wings were to go their separate ways.
However, unlike Mubarak, SCAF is only in power because the mobs of protesters in Tahrir Square demanded that Mubarak stand down to enable civilian, majority rule in Egypt.
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Mr Mugabe said Zimbabwe's history of racial reconciliation was a "priceless export" which had been an example to Namibia and South Africa as those countries moved to majority rule.
Mandela and other members of the African National Congress have been on the list because of their fight against South Africa's apartheid regime, which gave way to majority rule in 1994.
It is not just majority rule, not even close.
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Those sceptical of referendums agree that popular sovereignty, majority rule and consulting voters are the basic building blocks of democracy, but believe that representative democracy achieves these goals much better than referendums.
Madison failed to appreciate how vulnerable large republics would be to the inevitable emergence of coalitions of minorities under majority rule knitted together both contemporaneously and over time to rent seek, logroll and oppress.
The African National Congress governments that have been in power since the institution of majority rule in 1993 are credited with admirable, some say excessive, moderation in adjusting the economic imbalance between the races.
Then, hopefully, the Democrats would get real about governing by taking the necessary first step of doing away with filibuster rules that empower outliers and run the Senate on the novel notion of majority rule.
Democracy not only means the rule of the majority, it also mandates respect for the minority.
His party does not have the necessary two-thirds majority in the assembly to rule on its own.
It has been repackaged to qualify for a Senate rule that allows Majority Leader Harry Reid to bypass committee debate and bring it straight to the floor.
Both the centre-left Labour party and the centre-right VVD party won a sufficient number of votes between themselves to rule with a majority in the lower houses of parliament.
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But right now, they are very concerned -- the Sunnis, for instance -- that this is simply sort of a rule of the majority with actually no concern for the minority.
So the Christian Democrats will now govern the state with a one-seat majority after 14 years of Social Democratic rule.
"In a country where the majority is Muslim, we let democracy rule in its most advanced form and became an example for all Muslim countries, " he said.
All falls are now judged by majority decision, so maverick referees cannot over-rule the judges.
The conservative majority might find a way to craft a new rule limiting such class actions to more narrowly defined groups.
The "Buffett Rule" would not tax the vast majority of his shielded income, including either his unrealized capital gains, which are currently taxed at zero percent, or charitable contributions, which are tax deductible.
But Mr Cash, speaking to the amendment tabled jointly by Labour and a number of Tory backbenchers to remove the need for a two-thirds majority to force an early election, said the rule ran "contrary to all constitutional precedent and history since our parliament first sat".
Malaysia's KLSE Composite surged 2.9 percent to 1, 744.50 after the country's governing coalition won national elections, albeit with a weakened majority, to extend its unbroken, 56-year rule.
In Asia, Malaysia's KLSE Composite surged 3.4 percent to 1, 752.02 after the country's governing coalition won national elections, albeit with a weakened majority, to extend its unbroken, 56-year rule.
But on polling day, only a tiny majority voted for devolution, not enough to overcome the rule that 40% of all those eligible to vote had to endorse the scheme.
And given Turkey's history as a secular democratic state that respects the rule of law, but is also a majority Muslim nation, it plays a critical role I think in helping to shape mutual understanding and stability and peace not only in its neighborhood but around the world.
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Indeed, in Jaffna, TNA leaflets claimed that to vote for the ruling coalition would be to subject the peninsula to rule by Sri Lanka's mainly-Buddhist Sinhala majority.
Obtaining justice might be time consuming, expensive, and uncertain, but confidence in the rule-of-law is what keeps the vast majority of contracts from being broken in the first place.
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