It recognizes the liberties of minorities in their effort to become majorities. ... Politics are not mediated through other people or institutions and there is no separation between those who rule and those who are ruled. ... "Every political organization becomes a minority of directors and a majority of directed" (Michels, p.70). ... It is one of the only ways that citizens have of deciding who will rule them. ... The Tyranny of the Majority: Fundamental Fairness in Representative Democracy. ...

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Where democracy is present, a tyranny of the majority may occur. Tyranny of the majority is the assumption made that the majority is most likely to be correct than then minority and minorities are deprived of their rights. ... In Edmonton there is an obvious group who suffers from oppression from the majority. ... When politicians aim for the majority vote, they try and focus on the average needs of the majority. ... Such minority groups that do not have a voice are subject to the rules of the country they live in. ...

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In the 1883 Civil Rights Cases, the Court ruled that the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery but did not prohibit discrimination and the Fourteenth Amendment prohibited discrimination by the government but not by individuals. ... Once again, in a landmark decision, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the property owner and against the African American petitioner. ... For many years the majority on the Court used the standard of "separate but equal" to justify racial segregation. In conclusion, Africans Americans were given many civil liberties but the government and the white people did ...

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The vast majority of our society, those wishing to remain unaffected by political crime and violence, expect nothing less from the police, than protection. ... Making sure that the community would be able to have its say through a Member of Parliament, who had won a majority vote. ... As long as the police confine their surveillance to simple observation and don't violate any cardinal rules, the community shouldn't have a problem. ...

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The totalitarian form of "mob boss" rule in China has got to go. ... The president is elected by a majority vote for a seven-year term. The prime minister is nominated by the National Assembly majority and appointed by the President. ...

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This means that all US citizens are created equal and have equal rights despite the opinion of the majority. ... The Constitution was made as a frame of rules to protect every single American citizen despite race, religion, gender, or creed. ... Supreme rule is dependent upon constitutional interpretation. ...

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This means that all US citizens are created equal and have equal rights despite the opinion of the majority. ... The Constitution was made as a frame of rules to protect every single American citizen despite race, religion, gender, or creed. ... Supreme rule is dependent upon constitutional interpretation. ...

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In Locke's' book "Two Treatises of Government" he argued that when a government is unfit to rule the citizens of its country the masses should overthrow it. ... Having a majority vote of decisions that affect citizens directly and a government willing to listen the a stable society will be in order. ... By electing a representative to make decisions based on their ideology can make life easier and maintain rule of law. ... Constitutional rights and rule of law are eliminated and the citizens are forced to live with it. No research translating into a vote is allowed and the ...

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The government now decides to change that rule because they let their guard down during the attacks of September 11. The majority of people even believe the government does not need to take away the peoples liberties. ...

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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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With this view that humans are motivated only by selfish interests, Hobbes argues that people are better off living in a world with moral rules than without. Rules ensure the safety of everyone's property. ... The job of the legislature is to represent the will of the majority. If the rights of the people are not protected, the legislature is not representing the will of the majority and should be replaced. ...

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France and Britain: The Difference Within Scholars from Aristotle onward have proposed that the characteristics of society directly affect the nature of government. If we apply this to Britain and France, we shall see that this proposal is definitely true. The difference between the British and French cultures becomes obvious when an assessment looks at their political systems, and each of the 6 structures, and the full range of the political culture's influence on each structure is understood. Political socialization is the learning of your political culture; it is the process of acq...

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In a society ruled by the people, it is essential for the state to provide stability and predictability for its citizens. ... The government should reflect the voice of the majority electorate, while it seems that in Canada, the government reflects the voice of the elite. The majority electorate in Canada is a mixture of middle class, working class and poor, these are all classes that depend on various social programs. ...

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It is said some students may face certain pressures to stay hip but it really doesn't effect a huge majority. ... The Supreme Court ruled in 1969 that clothing is a mode of self-expression and as such, protected under the First Amendment. ...

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This enables people to more specialize on the issue and allows more effective discoveries and innovation methods of targeting the issue of salinity. 3) Government Laws - Rewards and Punishments The government should set regulations and rules on the certain amount of saline in the soil so if farmers are over the allowed the limit they will be punished. ... However the majority of farmers may not use their saved finances for reducing salinity so this is why it is a good idea to place taxation on inputs that are used in production that cause environmental damage. ...

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When the English settlers came to America they formulated the Bill of Rights which contained 10 Amendments outlining the rights of the people over the government as well as the government's freedom to rule over its people. ... The basic premise had been to focus on the governance of the majority and not the minority [Sunstein, 1998]. ...

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Some of the causes of interethnic violence are as follows: When the view of other ethnic groups are repressed for the majority within the government, and all peaceful recourse to arbitrate has been rebuffed, then the situation is prone for violence and civil disturbances. ... The United Nations through their charter has rules and procedures for countries to govern their people, and they do intervene as warranted to restore control to elected government; they have even pressured repressive to changes their ways. ... Develop countries with a large military usually complies with the United Nat...

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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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The purpose of the rules of order is to ensure the orderly transaction of public business. In accordance with these rules of order, "all bills-public and private must pass through various stages before they become law. ... When citizens elect an individual to represent their interests at various levels of government, they do so with the understanding that elected representative will act in the citizens best interests (the majority of the people). ...

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The court ruled "that the decency and respect clause constituted an unreasonable restraint on artistic speech and found that it violated the First Amendment" (Hale). ... However, to many other people, he was sincerely trying to protect against what a majority of tax payers might have considered a waste of tax dollars for obscene displays that mocked people's deeply held religious beliefs. ...

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau constructed The Social Contract to solve the question of freedom, specifically, the preservation and survival of what he terms as civil freedom, and his solution to this problem, in its most general sense, is the construction of the civil state. Through the grouping of citizens...

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau constructed The Social Contract to solve the question of freedom, specifically, the preservation and survival of what he terms as civil freedom, and his solution to this problem, in its most general sense, is the construction of the civil state. Through the grouping of citizens...

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With this rush of immigrants and visitors come rules and regulations; otherwise the vast opportunities of America would crumble. Of course with each of these rules and regulations follows groups and parties on either side defending why the decision of the government was right or wrong. ... The majority of the American population has become fed up with President Obama's take on immigration and how he plans to fix it. ... Citizen and Immigration Services component of Homeland Security is meant follow the rules, get people through the system the legal way, and try and not to get into anyone&...

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Control On Guns Experts estimate that there are presently in excess of 200 million guns in the United States, according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF). Each year this number grows by 4 to 5 million. There are 60 to 65 million legal owners of one or more guns. There is a firearm on the premises of more than half the households in America. Most of them keep guns for protection. ...

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The Warsaw Pact was a military alliance of the Eastern European Soviet Block countries intended to organize against the perceived threat from the NATO alliance. The Eastern Block members were: Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Poland, the former USSR and the former Czechoslovakia. All the Communist countries of Eastern Europe except Yugoslavia were included. The treaty was drafted by Kkrushchev in 1955 and signed in Warsaw on May 14,1955. The members of the Warsaw Pact were to defend each other if one was attacked. ...

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