Majority

separation of power. Since Lochner v. New York (1905) decision was overturned in West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish (1937), we can learn from the history that no horrifying law like the one I speculate has been adopted even decades later. In this case, the majority was indeed wrong about the slippery slope. However, in numerous other cases involving newly created implied fundamental rights, the employment of slippery slope argument involved accurate prediction. In Lawrence v. Texas (2003), Justice…

as the executive. By convention, however, the Governor General acts only on the advice of the Prime Minister who has the confidence of the House of Commons. The Prime Minister is able to achieve such support from the Members of Parliament, with a majority government, through party discipline – a power not available to the President. Party discipline also gives the Prime Minister immense influence over the priorities and legislative powers of Parliament. This is in direct contrast with the…

the presence of cultures different to the majority culture in a society. There are two approaches to cultural diversity: Multiculturalism, which institutionalises tolerance and inclusion by law and uniculturalism, which allows cultural minorities to express their culture but regards the majority culture as national ethos. The opposite of cultural diversity is the approach of monoculturalism, which aims for a homogenous society by only entitling the majority culture to express itself (The Open…

Today, the United States is dominated by two major parties. Those major parties are the Democrats and the Republicans. Since there are only two major parties, one might conclude there should not be any problems within the party, but rather the problems should exist between the two parties. That assumption would be wrong, both parties are facing internal challenges that must be solved. If these challenges are not solved, one might be able to predict a split of the parties. Unfortunately, that is…

the idea that decisions are made based on the opinion of the majority. Democracy gives the people choice. The citizens have the opportunity to make choices on how their lives are run and how much involvement the government has in their their everyday life. Due to the fact that Andrew Jackson was elected through the utilization of democracy, he used his presidency to further democratize America through bettering the lives of the majority. Andrew Jackson’s election was revolutionary in the…

less to do with the belief or religion itself than the church or its institutional form. The social impact of any religion in any society is affected by whether it is sustained/supported by the minority of the population or by the majority (Swatos, 1998: 12-25). A majority religion does not only impact more people directly, but is also likely to have a significant impact on society values. In general, it is the poorest societies that hold the biggest…

government needs balance. In the Federalist No. 55 they wrote, “In republican government, the legislative authority necessarily predominates.” In this quote, they are saying that the Republican Party usually has the power to make and amend laws. A majority of the states…

group by a majority population in which the new group takes on the values and norms of the dominant culture. I was kind of in the minority in the majority of my group which is African-American. What I mean is that I didn’t like certain things that African-Americans “usually like”. So within my own group was in the minority within the majority. This happened when I was younger but I ended up realizing that everyone is different for a reason. Things I would do to try to be in majority of my…

When the founding fathers wrote the Constitution to establish a solid government for the newly formed United States there was no way they could have predicted how much the country would grow and change. The laws and rights they included in the constitution were for there time but they also made the smart decision and leaving some of it up for interpretation and also leeway. The debate over The Supreme Court’s decision to legalize gay marriage in the United States today relates to the debate over…

offer when trying to save Socrates from execution, Socrates is right to accept his sentence and deny offers of liberation. He knows it does not matter what the majority will say or think of his death, the only opinion of importance is that of the one who understands the actual truth, whom he will meet…