A constitution is a group of basic rules by which a country or state is governed. ... The Governor-General will call a referendum after the bill is passed through both houses by an absolute majority in exactly the same form. ... The dual criteria for a successful referendum includes the majority of voters in Australia (50 percent plus 1) and the majority of states (at least four of six). In addition, if a particular state is affected, there must be a majority vote in that state. ...

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Between the years 1607 and 1766 the colonies were governed by British law, to the colonist there were many flaws in the rule but one which could not be overlooked would be the absence of "unalienable rights". ... D) The constitution itself was too shaky it only had one branch of government and was set to protect the commonwealth of the colonies, which was not easy with the rule of two thirds majority and only one vote per state. ... Along with the bill of rights there was a need for a constitutional conference and a better proportion of representative majority to pass laws. ...

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The prime function of the judicial branch is to interpret the law in such a way that rules made in the past can be applied reasonably in the present. ... These rules were established so that justices would be free from political pressures that might influence their decision. ... One of the justices writes the majority opinion, a statement of the court's decision and its reasons. ... A justice who disagrees with the majority opinion may write a dissenting opinion. ... The court as crossed into areas traditionally left to that of the lawmaking majorities, so the legitimacy of the courts hav...

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Many states have different rules about when alcohol can be sold, by whom, and on what days. ... Many states started out with strict laws especially on Sunday and have gradually changed these rules over time. ... After a lot of controversy, the alcohol rules were loosened for the games. ... In some areas the majority of the population is opposed to loose alcohol laws and there is not much incentive for the city, therefore X is larger then Y and the laws are not changed. ...

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Therefore, the national government enforced the laws created by the state majority and what was not explicitly stated was given to the states to decide. ... However, this is simply not the case as Madison argues that the great difference in factions and enhanced public sphere would prevent one majority from rising and oppressing the others. ... The Constitution may have diminished the rights of slaves, but it created a system of rule that prevented tyranny and advocated consent of the governed....

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By definition the word democracy deals with a form of government where the majority rules, a government in which the ultimate power lies in the masses. Between 1820 and 1840 Jackson's economic policies and the events that coincided with the great migration westward aided this change in power from th...

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Articles of Confederation It would have been very difficult to run an effective government under the Articles of Confederation. Many of the great minds politically active after the American Revolution realized this; thus arrived the birth of one of the greatest political documents of all time: The C...

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Larger states often tried to insert provisions regarding the payment and selection of federal officials and this brought a backlash from smaller states who were unsure if they were protected from this majority. ... Banning believed this issue had so much prominence because the founders did not want to replicate the issues of the Articles of Confederation and feared the terrors of "majority misrule". This fear of the majority explains why the larger states conceided power during the Great Compromise. ... This knowledge of the unreliability of the majority made the larger states wil...

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In doing so, he documented thecharacteristic attitude of the majority of the country in the 1820's and 1830's. ... For the first time in the history of the nation, the middle classreceived the opportunity to participate in the government that ruled them. ... Georgia, ruled that they constituted a domestic dependent nation not subject to the laws of Georgia. ...

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The argued that by keeping the majority of the legal power in the hands of the states ad counties the people would be better served. ... Under English rule the American Colonist had suffered under the yoke of a ruler who did not understand or care about their well being. ... They proposed a government structure which was focused locally and in which the majority of the power remained in the hands of the States. ... Yet unlike the Virginia Plan proposed by the Federalist, Patterson plan left the majority of the national governments power in the hands of the state elected national legislator,...

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The majority opinion stated that the First Amendment protects not only spoken words but protects acts of speech. ... The court ruled that if an action is conveying an idea and it is not just an act to provoke violence or protest then it is free speech and is protected by the First Amendment....

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Because each state had such a different plan of rule and their own selfish desires, the establishment of a strong central government was impossible. ... They complained that the government was so weak that it had to have nine state majority votes just to pass a law. ... For the large territory lying between the Great Lakes and the Ohio River, congress passed an ordinance that set the rules for creating new states known as the Northwest Ordinance of 1787. ... With many of the problems of the Articles of Confederation being solved by the Anti-federalists through the production of the Bill of R...

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" for unfair low wages.4 Concerns about the effect these jobs had on children and laws regarding child labor and minimum age began to surface and by 1910 a majority of states had implemented such laws. ... " Congress did not have "the constitutional power to impose uniform rules for the country.... He believed Congress had the authority to regulate the manufacturing process and that it "could not be cut down or qualified by the fact that it might interfere with the carrying out of the domestic policy of any State."14 Additionally, Holmes fervently disagreed with the majority i...

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Democracy is an unchecked rule by the masses, and it is sure to bring arbitrary redistribution of property, destroying the very essence of liberty. ... Hofstader also mentions that the views of the majority founding fathers ignores the views of the minority of founding fathers. ...

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Young ruled in favor of it. ... Court of Appeals ruled that the DEA is allowed to reject it's judge's ruling which meant returning marijuana back to a Schedule I narcotic. ... Since 1996, a majority of voters in Alaska, California, Colorado, Maine, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington, have voted in favor of adding to the ballot, the idea of removing the criminal penalties for seriously ill people who grow or possess medical marijuana. ...

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Constitution that U.S. states defines territory (as is Guam) as property: The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of any particular State. ... Not unlike the original thirteen British colonies in the early American continent did with England, Guam experiences much political frustration with U.S. arbitrary rule. ... And as is usually the case with colonized peoples (...

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Amendments could be made only by unanimous consent of all thirteen states--a rather rare phenomenon--and even national laws required a two-thirds majority, also somewhat improbable. ... The Articles of Confederation, since they prevented a strong central government from having power over states' rights, tended to create problems for a government that wished to rule with any amount of authority. ... These conflicts added to the existing troubles of the government under the Articles of Confederation, thus making it even more difficult to rule effectively. ... Although problems continued to...

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This provoked challenges to the government's legislation, in which the high court ruled against the commonwealth. ... In practice, the majority of the above occurs, however conflict and the ambiguity of the separation of power between the states and the federal government tends to cloud the foundations of federalism. ...

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