Democracy not only means the rule of the majority, it also mandates respect for the minority.
The Honduran leadership removed Zelaya because it was in accordance with the rule of law and the overwhelming majority of the population backed this decision.
The drift of the Senate away from majority rule to a new standard of 60-vote rule is a dangerous trend.
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.
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.
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.
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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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.
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.
This old revolutionary slogan was, it seems, a guiding principle for the leaders of Kosovo's ethnic-Albanian majority during the dark years of direct rule from Serbia which followed the suppression of the province's autonomy in 1989.
W. de Klerk's government brought most white South Africans reluctantly round to the idea of black majority rule.
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.
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.
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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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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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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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.
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.
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.
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.
"This rule is essential to the foundation of the Union, " wrote the majority.
Only 11% of voters turned out in Srinagar, the Muslim-majority city at the centre of the insurgency against Indian rule.
If the Supreme Court effectively suspends or amends the Constitution by majority vote for whatever reason, there is no defensible rule of law.
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So the Christian Democrats will now govern the state with a one-seat majority after 14 years of Social Democratic rule.
Jammu and Kashmir is India's only Muslim-majority state and has been the scene of a violent insurgency against Indian rule since 1989.
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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.
There was a split between those led by Michael Collins who accepted that while British rule in 26 counties of Ireland would end, in the North, where there was a majority in favour of the ties with Britain, it would not.
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