W. de Klerk's government brought most white South Africans reluctantly round to the idea of black majority rule.
But democracy, as understood in Western states, means much more than majority rule.
This sense of having a mandate encouraged Morales to exercise power based on the simple principle of majority rule.
An election that cast out the National Party and introduced black majority rule.
The drift of the Senate away from majority rule to a new standard of 60-vote rule is a dangerous trend.
Board of Education, ending school segregation, civil-rights activists came to see courts as the solution to the abuses of majority rule.
" In our case, constitutional arrangements provide inherent "individual rights, democratic representation (with some form of majority rule) and national citizenship.
"Freedom is not only about majority rule, but ensuring that women, religious minorities and intellectual dissenters are able to flourish without fear, " he added.
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.
None of this cowed Thatcher, who understood that the main threat IRA terrorism posed wasn't so much to British sovereignty in Northern Ireland as it was to the very concept of majority rule.
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.
The strike was launched on May 2, 1977 by Mr Paisley and his political ally, Ernest Baird to protest against an alleged lack of security and to demand a return to unionist majority-rule government at Stormont.
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For a start, it may not, as a tactic, work not well enough, at any rate, to give him the outright majority he needs to rule with just the Greens, say, as his coalition partners.
In Israel this means creating alternative media organs through the Internet and other outlets to end the radical Left's monopoly on information dissemination and engage in a discourse that reflects reality, engages the majority and upholds the rule of law.
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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 why shouldn't the normal democratic rule, that a simple majority is all that's needed for legitimacy, apply here?
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.
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