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.
Board of Education, ending school segregation, civil-rights activists came to see courts as the solution to the abuses of majority rule.
His party does not have the necessary two-thirds majority in the assembly to rule on its own.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Democracy not only means the rule of the majority, it also mandates respect for the minority.
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 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".
But Professor Boffetta said the protective effect of the vegetables would not rule out the harmful effect of smoking, linked to the majority of cases of lung cancer.
"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.
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 "50 plus one" rule -- a revered model of football governance whereby fans are the majority stakeholder -- applies to all clubs participating in the Bundesliga, with the exception of Bayer Leverkusen and Wolfsburg.
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Given that the Shia majority appears to have been the target in many of the latest attacks, it is hard to rule out a sectarian motive.
So if the Florida Supreme Court were to rule in favour of Mr Gore, and were he to win a majority of the recounted vote, the legislature would almost certainly appoint a Bush slate.
The conservative majority might find a way to craft a new rule limiting such class actions to more narrowly defined groups.
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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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.
All falls are now judged by majority decision, so maverick referees cannot over-rule the judges.
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.
Malaysia's ruling coalition has won a simple majority in the country's election, extending its 56-year rule.
So the Christian Democrats will now govern the state with a one-seat majority after 14 years of Social Democratic rule.
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.
Still, the majority of policymakers at Mexico's central bank said that they could not rule out that renewed global market volatility could hit the peso again.
It effectively created two 'Home Rule' states by partitioning Ireland into the six counties of Protestant majority in the north east - Northern Ireland - and the rest of Ireland - Southern Ireland.
Or to put it another way, if a majority of the eurozone "outs" don't like a new banking rule, they can block it - which limits the voting force of eurozone members acting in unison.
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