Minority Rights Majority Rule

Author : Sarah A. Binder
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521587921
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Minority Rights, Majority Rule written by Sarah A. Binder and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-06-13 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Minority Rights, Majority Rule seeks to explain a phenomenon evident to most observers of the US Congress. In the House of Representatives, majority parties rule and minorities are seldom able to influence national policy making. In the Senate, minorities quite often call the shots, empowered by the filibuster to frustrate the majority. Why did the two chambers develop such distinctive legislative styles? Conventional wisdom suggests that differences in the size and workload of the House and Senate led the two chambers to develop very different rules of procedure. Sarah Binder offers an alternative, partisan theory to explain the creation and suppression of minority rights, showing that contests between partisan coalitions have throughout congressional history altered the distribution of procedural rights. Most importantly, new majorities inherit procedural choices made in the past. This institutional dynamic has fuelled the power of partisan majorities in the House but stopped them in their tracks in the Senate.

Author : Henry Steele Commager
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Majority Rule and Minority Rights written by Henry Steele Commager and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Harlan Hahn
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Government written by Harlan Hahn and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1976 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henry Steele Commager
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Majority Rule and Minority Rights written by Henry Steele Commager and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Julia McMeans
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 150263211X
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Majority Rule and Minority Rights written by Julia McMeans and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, many votes are decided by majority rules. Likewise, many people are protected by minority rights. This book examines both concepts, explains what they mean, what the Constitution says about them, and how they can be practiced in everyday situations.

Author : Harold J. Spaeth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521805711
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Majority Rule Or Minority Will written by Harold J. Spaeth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-02-19 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the influence of precedent on the behavior of the US Supreme Court justices.

Author : Uyilawa Usuanlele
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319506307
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Minority Rights and the National Question in Nigeria written by Uyilawa Usuanlele and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-18 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a thematic study of key debates in the history of the ethnic politics, democratic governance, and minority rights in Nigeria. Nigeria provides a framework for examining the central paradox in post-colonial nation building projects in Africa – the tension between majority rule and minority rights. The liberal democratic model on which most African states were founded at independence from colonial rule, and to which they continue to aspire, is founded on majority rule. It is also founded on the protection of the rights of minority groups to political participation, social inclusion and economic resources. Maintaining this tenuous balance between majority rule and minority rights has, in the decades since independence, become the key national question in many African countries, perhaps none more so than Nigeria. This volume explores these issues, focusing on four key themes as they relate to minority rights in Nigeria: ethnic and religious identities, nationalism and federalism, political crises and armed conflicts.

Author : Lindsay Rogers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Senate written by Lindsay Rogers and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alexander Hamilton
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1528785878
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Federalist Papers written by Alexander Hamilton and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2018-08-20 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic Books Library presents this brand new edition of “The Federalist Papers”, a collection of separate essays and articles compiled in 1788 by Alexander Hamilton. Following the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776, the governing doctrines and policies of the States lacked cohesion. “The Federalist”, as it was previously known, was constructed by American statesman Alexander Hamilton, and was intended to catalyse the ratification of the United States Constitution. Hamilton recruited fellow statesmen James Madison Jr., and John Jay to write papers for the compendium, and the three are known as some of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Alexander Hamilton (c. 1755–1804) was an American lawyer, journalist and highly influential government official. He also served as a Senior Officer in the Army between 1799-1800 and founded the Federalist Party, the system that governed the nation’s finances. His contributions to the Constitution and leadership made a significant and lasting impact on the early development of the nation of the United States.

Author : Erika Meersman
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1508163944
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Majority Rule vs. Individual Rights written by Erika Meersman and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. government is commonly characterized as being comprised of the Republican Party and the Democratic Party. These two parties have differing views of how the government should be run, therefore creating a divide in legislative processes. Majority rule refers to a democracy being governed by decisions upon which a greater portion of people has agreed. However, U.S. citizens have basic and inalienable rights that can't be violated by the government. This book explores these basic and inalienable rights in relation to majority rule, and provides insight to how these concepts are laid out in the U.S. Constitution.