Oppressive majority rule can work in many ways. The majority may bring pressure on the government to enact laws that specifically work against the minority. The majority, either through law or through other means may blank out the views of the minority, leaving only their own views to be heard. ... But what would happen if the majority held a view, such as the earth is flat, and oppressed the minority that believed it to be round. ... It must allow the society to hold together with accepted rules and regulations without infringing on personal freedoms. ...

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We live in a democratic nation where freedom reigns, as does the majority. This majority believes that cloning is wrong and immoral, and therefore the United States government has ceased federal funding for this type of research. They have not however, ruled out the possibility of private funding. ...

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The Puritans of New England, the Friends of Pennsylvania , the Roman Catholics of Maryland and the Churchmen of Virginia, though often narrow in their theological views, manifested a common love of liberty, and acted upon the common rule that the majority should govern. ... These individuals came together to make a productive society that worked for the good of the majority, and not just for one particular social class. ...

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The Puritans of New England, the Friends of Pennsylvania , the Roman Catholics of Maryland and the Churchmen of Virginia, though often narrow in their theological views, manifested a common love of liberty, and acted upon the common rule that the majority should govern. ... These individuals came together to make a productive society that worked for the good of the majority, and not just for one particular social class. ...

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Where the inspectors, who represent "society", are concerned the true villain is Tajomaru but the author uses the bandit to look deeper in upon "society" and critique it's shallow views on majority rule, who makes up that majority, the decisions that the ruling majority makes, and the harsh effects upon those unfortunate enough to be marginalized by those in power. ...

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States may renounce pure religious dispositions but they cannot over-rule religious beliefs outright as spiritual doctrines command passionate devotion which, when interrupted, generates conflict. ... Likewise, when a news firm in Denmark published satirical cartoons of the founder of Islamic religion in 2008, majority of Muslim countries strongly condemned Denmark for not censoring provoking material. ... Resultantly, Muslims face retaliation in majority of the countries as is evident from the loss of jobs by Muslims in USA after 9/11 incident. The retaliation was result of ignorance of belie...

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Thus we owe our social civility to religion because it has laid down in our hearts the basic rule of law, which is another foundation of government; every law and every constitution is based on these simple beliefs. ... He knows that there is a majority Christian population in the country. He also realizes that he can win the election if he appeals to this majority. ... This is exactly what happened in Nigeria, where, during the state elections of 1999, a politician running for governor of Zamfara, a northern state, appealed to the majority Moslems in the state by pledging to implement Sharia ...

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Bayle's Dictionary had a message on the Book of Genesis, saying it is not wrong on one point and that is God did create the universe, but nobody knows how, and He set it going according to rules-the laws of science-with which He had no reason to interfere (Barzun). ... Locke argued in detail, mainly in writings associated with the Revolution of 1688 that certain rights self-evidently pertain to individuals as human beings, because they existed in the state of nature' before humankind entered civil society; that chief among them are the rights to life, liberty, freedom from arbitr...

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This is where God presented The Ten Commandments to Moses so that the people would have rules to live by. ... District Judge Myron Thompson ruled the monument violates the Constitution's ban on government promotion of religion. ... We cannot allow the agnostic minority to over rule the Christian majority. ...

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Traditionally, everybody lives under one roof albeit, majority of the family are back in their native country. ... They like to believe that life is a cycle of birth, death, and rebirth, which is ruled by Karma. ...

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A community can be defined as a group of people living in the same place under certain rules or to people who have particular characteristics in common, such as religion, race, culture, etc. ... It is clear that in order to make a change is vital that everybody or at least the vast majority of community members, participate to become active agents of their own intervention and corresponding improvements....

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Just because the majority of the world's population believes in a God, it doesn't mean that religion in public schools follows the law. On June 17, 1963, the Supreme Court ruled that laws requiring recitation of the Lord's Prayer or Bible verses in public schools do not follow the constitution. ...

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The Supreme Court also ruled these appropriate instances for the implementation of Censorship. ... The text makes the argument that the opinions of a small percentage of the population should not be used to control the majority. ...

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Majority rules, and because no one in this day in age wants to fight against a possibly larger opposing group, the minority in democratic elections more often than not bows out gracefully accepting defeat. Democracy is a way for a majority of people to get what they want without compromise. ...

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Additionally, the majority of individuals asked would probably be drawing only from their limited knowledge of their one religion. ... Finally, Buddhism as a general rule, is unclear if there is a supreme god or creator. ...

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The examples listed above are ways in which the majority of our society believe technology is for the better and not worse. ... However, in our occasionally unstable and flexible society, the rules are bent. ...

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I, with a majority of others, have paid much more attention to the physical existence than to our moral cultivation. ... Compared with the speed and scale nature regenerates itself, human power seems too weak to affect the constant rules of the environment. ...

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However, there are exceptions to this general rule because there are circumstances in which abortion may be necessary. ... Utilitarianism is the thought that actions are right if they benefit or bring happiness to a majority of the population.They could argue that there is overpopulation in today's society and around the world people are starving and going thirsty because of overpopulation. ...

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Born and raised as a Roman Catholic, my parents tried their best to mold me not just into a kind and obedient kid but to be a girl with a strong faith in God. I remember that our apartment didn't have just one but a couple of altars. At a very young age, I was taught how to make the sign of the cros...

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