A Majority of One is a play by Leonard Spigelgass . Plot The play is a drama concerning racial prejudice involving Mrs. Jacoby, a Jewish widow from Brooklyn, New York , and Koichi Asano, a millionaire widower from Tokyo . Mrs. Jacoby is sailing to Japan with her daughter and foreign service officer son in law who is being posted to the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo. She still considers the country the enemy responsible for the death of her son during World War II , but her feelings change when she meets Mr. Asano on board the ship. When she advises her family of Mr. Asano s desire to court her, Mrs. Jacoby s daughter, whose loyalty is to her mother rather than her husband, objects to the possibility of an interracial marriage. The 1959 60 Broadway theatre Broadway production was directed by Dore Schary and ran for 3 previews and 556 performances, with Gertrude Berg , Cedric Hardwicke , and Ina Balin . Awards and nominations Tony Award for Best Actor in Play Cedric Hardwicke, nominee Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play Gertrude Berg, winner Tony Award for Best Scenic Design Donald Oenslager, winner Tony Award for Best Direction Dore Schary, nominee Theatre World Award Ina Balin, winner Film version Image A Majority Of One.jpg right 200px thumb Video cover of A Majority Of One 1961 In 1961 Spigelgass adapted his play for a Warner Bros. film starring Rosalind Russell and Alec Guinness and directed by Mervyn LeRoy . Awards and nominations Academy Award for Best Color Cinematography Harry Stradling Sr. , nominee Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures Mervyn LeRoy, nominee Golden Globe Award for Best Film Promoting International Understanding ... Written American Comedy Leonard Spigelgass, nominee External links ibdb show 1174 A Majority of One imdb title id 0055124 title A Majority of One GoldenGlobeBestMotionPictureMusicalComedy 1961 1980 Mervyn LeRoy films DEFAULTSORT Majority of One Category 1959 plays Category Broadway plays Category ... more details
plurality voting , Memphis condorcet loser will lose as a majority of voters do not want the city as capital. Parliamentary rules In rules of order parliamentary procedure , the term majority refers to more than half. As it relates to a vote, a majority is more than half of the votes cast noting that an abstention is simply the refusal to vote . The definition of majority vote can differ, however, from one parliamentary authority to another. Robert s Rules of Order defines a majority as being more ...about the mathematical concept of majority A majority is a subset of a group consisting of more than ... than any other subset i.e. a plurality is not necessarily a majority as the largest subset may consist of less than half the group s population. In British English, majority and plurality are often used as synonyms, and the term majority is also alternatively used to refer to the winning margin, i.e. the number of votes separating the first place finisher from the second place finisher. A majority may be called a simple majority to contrast with other types of majority an overall majority , in parliamentary ... cite web title Overall Majority url http www.ldoceonline.com dictionary overall majority work Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English publisher Longmans accessdate 2009 04 26 ref an absolute majority is a majority of all electors, not just those who voted ref cite web url http dictionary.cambridge.org dictionary british absolute majority title Definition of absolute majority noun from Cambridge Dictionary Online ref ref cite web url http en.euabc.com word 833 title Simple majority ref ref With three ... word for what we used to call an absolute majority ... In America the word majority itself has that meaning ... of Modern English Usage ref and a supermajority is a stronger majority than a simple majority. Example Tenn voting example Here, Memphis has a plurality 42 of the first preferences, but not a majority. We can contrast this by looking at the fourth preferences, where the majority of voters 58 have ... more details
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Wiktionary majority A majority is a subset of a group that is more than half of the entire group. Other uses of majority include Majority sociology , a sub group that does form the majority of a population Age of majority , in law, the age at which one acquires the full legal rights of an adult In a military context, the state of holding the rank of, or having been commissioned as, a major Majority film Majority film , is a 2010 Turkish drama film See also Major disambiguation disambiguation fr Majorit nl Meerderheid ... more details
A majority draw is an outcome in several full contact combat sports, including boxing , mixed martial arts , and others sports involving striking. In a majority draw, two of the three judges agree that neither fighter won i.e. tied scorecards , while the third judge indicates one fighter being the clear winner on his her scorecard http www.boxrec.com media index.php Majority draw . Thus, the majority of judges see the outcome as even and the result is announced as such, although one judge gave a clear victory on his her card to one fighter. The outcome is the rarest of professional boxing MMA judged decisions. fact date November 2011 References Combat sports decisions Category Boxing rules and regulations ru ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 A majority government is a government formed by a governing political party party that has an absolute majority of seats in the legislature or parliament in a parliamentary system . This is as opposed to a minority government , where even the largest party wins only a Plurality voting plurality of seats and thus must constantly bargain for support from other parties in order to pass legislation and avoid being defeated on motion of no confidence motions of no confidence . The term majority government may also be used for a stable coalition of two or more parties to form an absolute majority. One example of such an electoral coalition is in Australia , where the Liberal Party of Australia Liberal and National Party of Australia National parties have run as an electoral bloc for decades. Another example is the current coalition government in the United Kingdom , which is composed of the Conservative and Liberal Democratic parties. The conservatives won the most seats of any single party in the 2010 election, but fell short of an absolute majority. However, by combining with the Liberal Democrats a solid majority in the House of Commons was created. This is the first true coalition government in the UK since World War II . See also Coalition government Hung parliament Minority government DEFAULTSORT Majority Government Category Political terms fr Gouvernement majoritaire nl Meerderheidskabinet ru sh Ve inska vlada fi Enemmist hallitus sv Majoritetsregering ... more details
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. However, one can obtain an explicit formula for majority of polynomial size using a sorting ...In Boolean logic , the majority function also called the median operator is a function mathematics function from n inputs to one output. The value of the operation is false when n 2 or more arguments are false, and true otherwise. Alternatively, representing true values as 1 and false values as 0, we may use the formula math operatorname Majority left p 1, dots,p n right left lfloor frac 1 2 frac sum i 1 n p i 1 2 n right rfloor. math The &minus 1 2 in the formula serves to break ties in favor of zeros when n is even a similar formula can be used for a function that breaks ties in favor of ones. Boolean circuits A majority gate is a logical gate used in circuit complexity and other applications of Boolean circuits . A majority gate returns true if and only if more than 50 of its inputs are true. For instance, in a Adder electronics full adder , the carry output is found by applying a majority function to the three inputs, although frequently this part of the adder is broken down into several simpler logical gates. A major result in circuit complexity asserts that the majority function cannot be computed by AC0 AC0 circuits of subexponential size. Monotone formulae for majority For n 1 the median operator is just the unary identity operation x . For n 3 the ternary median operator can be expressed using conjunction and disjunction as xy yz zx . Remarkably this expression denotes the same operation independently of whether the symbol is interpreted as disjunction inclusive or or exclusive or . For an arbitrary n there exists a monotone formula for majority of size O n sup 5.3 ... first L. last Valiant authorlink Leslie Valiant title Short monotone formulae for the majority function ... River, NJ See also Commonscat inline Majority functions Boolean algebra structure Boolean algebras canonically defined Majority problem cellular automaton Category Logic gates Category Circuit complexity ... more details
Majority was one of the largest conservative lobby groups in the United States and at its height ... s heed, more than one fifth of Moral Majority supporters voted for Reagan in 1980 that had ...Image Jerry Falwell portrait.jpg thumb Jerry Falwell , whose founding of the Moral Majority was a key step in the formation of the New Christian Right The Moral Majority was a political organization of the United ... establishment The origins of the Moral Majority can be traced to 1976, when Jerry Falwell embarked ... years Falwell was favorably positioned to launch the Moral Majority. The Moral Majority was formally ... Moral Majority a phrase coined by Weyrich ref A Reverence for Fundamentalism, Lernoux, Penny. The Nation ... 864 7 ref Establishment and organizational activity Falwell and Weyrich founded the Moral Majority in June 1979. ref http books.google.com books?id kxKOrqtQBQC&pg PA15&dq moral majority founded&hl ... 20majority 20founded&f false ref The Moral Majority was a southern oriented organization of the Christian Right, although the Moral Majority s state chapters and political activity extended beyond the South. ref name Liebman 1983 p. 58 After the Moral Majority s establishment, the state chapters grew ... Origins of the Moral Majority journal Journal of Policy History volume 22 pages 125 147 issue ... ref The variety of resources available to the Moral Majority at its founding facilitated this rapid expansion, which included Falwell s Old Time Gospel Hour mailing list. In addition, the Moral Majority ... throughout the 1980s. By 1982, Moral Majority surpassed Christian Voice USA Christian Voice in size and influence. The Moral Majority s headquarters were in Lynchburg, Virginia , the same city where ... of the Moral Majority and maintained an advisory board, constituting the organization s primary ... Fellowship . Falwell insisted the Moral Majority leadership also include Catholics and Jews, although ... Press. ISBN 0 231 12154 7 ref The Moral Majority was an organization made up of conservative ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Judicial opinions In law , a majority opinion is a judicial opinion agreed to by more than half of the members of a court . A majority opinion sets forth the Case law decision of the court and an explanation of the rationale behind the court s decision. Not all cases have a majority opinion. At times, the justices voting for a majority decision e.g., to affirm or reverse the lower court s decision may have drastically different reasons for their votes, and cannot agree on the same set of reasons. In that situation, several concurring opinion s may be written, none of which is actually the view of a majority of the members of the court. Therefore, the concurring opinion joined by the greatest number of judges is referred to as the plurality opinion . Normally, appellate courts or panels are staffed with an odd number of judges to avoid a tie. Sometimes when judicial positions are vacant or a judge has recused himself or herself from the case, the court may be stuck with a tie, in which case the lower court s decision will be affirmed without comment by an equally divided court. A majority opinion in countries which use the common law system becomes part of the body of case law . Style There is a key stylistic difference between the U.S. on the one hand, and the UK and other common law countries on the other. In the U.S., the disposition of an appeal in a majority opinion is usually drafted in the present tense, so that the disposition ... so, the court actually does so. In the UK and many other common law countries, the disposition in a majority ... of the United Kingdom end a majority opinion by stating that I would dismiss the appeal or I would allow the appeal, while the Justices of the High Court of Australia end a majority opinion by stating ... situations that will not actually occur, as opposed to what the majority is actually doing ... Majority Opinion Category Case law Law term stub zh ... more details
states that if one candidate is preferred by a majority more than 50 of voters, then that candidate ...Refimprove date May 2011 The majority criterion is a single winner Voting system Evaluating voting systems ... Voting Method Comparison Chart Majority Favorite Criterion If a majority more than 50 of voters consider ... include any Condorcet method , instant runoff voting , and Bucklin voting . The majority criterion ... any definition. For others, such as approval voting and Majority judgment , the system may pass ... By the majority criterion, a candidate X should win if a majority of voters answers affirmatively ... criterion implies that of the majority criterion, but not vice versa. With the Condorcet criterion ..., but the majority criterion requires a single majority which has X as their first choice, preferred to every other candidate. In the statement that Condorcet criterion is stronger than the majority ... of the majority criterion Controversy The majority criterion was initially defined with respect to voting ... rating categories such as Approval voting Approval , Range voting Range , and Majority Judgment ... the necessary exclusive preference without voting insincerely, the method cannot determine a majority ... voting passes this criterion if it means a mental state, approval voting does not pass. For Majority ... whether Approval voting satisfies the majority criterion. Approval voting is not a preferential voting method, whereas the majority criterion has been created for preferential voting methods. There is a Majority criterion Application of the majority criterion Controversy controversy how ... approved candidates. So, although a 55 majority prefers A over every other candidate, B is elected ... the majority, they could have voted for A alone, and A would have won with 55 votes to B s 45 ... be more likely to vote strategically, and it would be unusual for a majority of voters to approve ... choice of a majority of voters but candidate B wins the election. Range voting Main Range ... more details
COI date March 2011 Infobox Organization name American Majority image American Majority logo .png image ... AmericanMajority.org remarks American Majority is a nonprofit, conservative political ... . American Majority was founded in 2008 by Ned Ryun , a former presidential writer for George W. Bush ... in Oklahoma , Wisconsin , Illinois , Florida , and Texas . Until the spring of 2011, American Majority ... Arkansas Mark Darr and his future campaign manager attended an American Majority training in December ... in is district and surrounding areas, but Mark applied what he learned through American Majority and won ... American Majority trained candidates won. Fall 2010 victories include Terry Calloway who was identified and trained by American Majority in hopes that he would challenge a very liberal state house ... campaign manager was trained through American Majority s Campus Majority program, as was his online director, who created Calloway s website and managed his new media. ref name ReferenceA American Majority ... http wichitaliberty.org politics american majority activist training a success ref Minnesota Washington County Commissioner Lisa Weik was identified and trained by American Majority and is currently .... ref name ReferenceA American Majority has continued to expand its presence in Minnesota by training ... majority becoming political force in minnesota ref Oklahoma In spring 2009 local elections, 17 of 27 candidates trained by American Majority were victorious. Victories in 2010 include Josh Brecheen, who attended an American Majority candidate training in Oklahoma City in the spring of 2010, declaring ... by American Majority. As they report, they ran their race based on what American Majority taught ...&cmp clp edweek ref Wisconsin American Majority trained Dr. Pam Galloway. Despite not having held any prior political office, she definitively beat Wisconsin State Senate s Majority Leader Russ Decker, who was a five term incumbent, by ten points. Pam s victory was called one of the most stunning ... more details
Cleanup date September 2008 Infobox Organization name Progressive Majority image Progressive Majority.png image border size caption map msize mcaption abbreviation motto A Future Worth Fighting For formation 1999 extinction type Political action committee PAC status purpose headquarters 1825 K St. NW Suite 450, Washington, DC, 20006 location region served membership language leader title Executive Director leader name Gloria Totten main organ parent organization affiliations num staff num volunteers budget website http www.progressivemajority.org www.progressivemajority.org remarks Progressive Majority is an United States American political group that recruits, trains, and elects Progressivism progressive politicians to state and local offices. It was founded in 1999 by leaders from organized ... Majority currently operates and has offices in Arizona , California , Colorado , Minnesota , Ohio ... candidates all 2008 Progressive Majority list of 2008 endorsed candidates . Progressive Majority. ref . Progressive Majority s president is Gloria Totten and there are currently 496 people on its farm team of potential candidates. Progressive Majority has been credited with helping to achieve ... from Progressive Majority. History When founded, Progressive Majority assisted progressive candidates ... History Progressive Majority history . Progressive Majority. ref Offices were ... Majority s founding, with 41 candidates being elected in 2004, 53 elected in 2005, and 102 elected ... with the help of Progressive Majority include California Secretary of State Debra Bowen , Washington House of Representatives Majority Floor Leader Larry Springer, Washington state senator and 2007 ... Arizona state senator Paula Aboud , one of Arizona s few openly gay elected officials. Endorsed ... Commissioner of Public Lands. Racial Justice Campaign In 2004, Progressive Majority created the Racial ... Majority s official website Category Organizations based in Washington, D.C. Category Organizations ... more details
Infobox musical artist See Wikipedia WikiProject Musicians name Minor Majority image caption image size background group or band alias origin Norway genre Rock music Rock br Alternative pop br Country music Country years active 2001 label Big Dipper record label Big Dipper associated acts website current members P l Angelsk r br Jon Arild Stieng br Harald Sommerstad br Henrik Harr Wider e br Halvor H gh Winsnes past members notable instruments The Norwegian pop group Minor Majority was formed by P l Angelsk r and Andreas Berczelly as a studio project in the spring of 2000. The first record, Walking Home From Nicole s , was released one year later with significant help from singer songwriter Karen Jo Fields . In November 2001 the band saw the addition of guitarist Jon Arild Stieng and the duo went on tour for the first time in the spring of 2002. Berczelly left the band and concentrated full time on producing, which he has done for the band ever since. The band s next album If I Told You, You Were Beautiful was recorded in Stieng s house in Oslo that same summer, and was released in October. For the upcoming tour of spring 2003 keyboardist Harald Sommerstad joined, and the band was now a trio. Prior to the Norway Norwegian quart festival Quart festivalen the same year, the band was extended ... . 2007 saw the release of their fifth album, Candy Store Minor Majority album Candy Store . After ... to have a pause from making music, but that they eventually will make at least one more album. ref http www.nrk.no musikk 1.3553323 Minor Majority tar pause Musikk NRK Bot generated title ... 2007 Candy Store Minor Majority album Candy Store 2009 Either Way You Think I Know External links http www.minormajority.no Official site http www.myspace.com minormajority Minor Majority at MySpace Notes references Category Norwegian musical groups de Minor Majority fr Minor Majority it Minor majority no Minor Majority ... more details
of an interested and overbearing majority. Lord Acton also used this term, saying quote The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority , or rather of that party, not always the majority ...about the form of democracy Ochlocracy the Flesh Field album Tyranny of the Majority album Wiktionary tyranny majority The phrase tyranny of the majority or tyranny of the masses , used in discussing systems of democracy and majority rule , envisions a scenario in which decisions made by a majority place its interests so far above those of an individual or minority group as to constitute active oppression, comparable to that of tyrant s and Despotism despots . ref John Stuart Mill. http books.google.com books?id f14SAAAAIAAJ&dq 22John Stuart Mill 22 22On Liberty 22 22tyranny of the majority 22 ... of the majority in a single legislative chamber. ref name Przeworski Term A term used in Classical ... meant absolute monarchy of an undesirable kind. The phrase tyranny of the majority was used by John ... in general. In 1965, Herbert Marcuse argued the tyranny of the majority in his essay Repressive ... of tolerance strengthen the tyranny of the majority against which authentic liberals protested ... of law review articles. ref Lani Guinier, The Tyranny of the Majority Free Press 1994 ref Public choice theory The notion that, in a democracy, the greatest concern is that the majority will tyrannise ... their interests over those of the majority. Olson argues that when the benefits of political ... majority American politician John C. Calhoun developed the theory of the concurrent majority to deal with the tyranny of the majority. It states that great decisions are not merely a matter of numerical ... for a temporary coalition that had a majority to gang up on and hurt a significant minority. The doctrine is one of limitations on democracy to prevent the tyranny. ref Lacy K. Ford Jr., Inventing the Concurrent Majority Madison, Calhoun, and the Problem of Majoritarianism in American ... more details
One Television de Majority Rules Becky regiert die Stadt ...Unreliable sources date March 2011 Infobox television show name Majority Rules image include ALT text per WP ALT guideline caption show name 2 genre Comedy drama format creator Wilson Coneybeare developer writer Wilson Coneybeare director Craig Pryce creative director Greg Lawrence presenter starring Tracy Spiridakos br Jenny Raven br Sasha Clements br Dalmar Abuzeid br Madison Cassaday br Wesley Morgan br Jackie Richardson br Shauna MacDonald judges voices narrated theme music composer opentheme On our own endtheme composer Christian Szczesniak 22 episodes br David Krystal 21 episodes country Canada language English num seasons or num series num episodes list episodes executive producer John Morayniss br Frank Saperstein producer Chris Danton br Steve Wright co producer br Myra Fried co producer editor location cinematography camera runtime company Entertainment One E1 distributor Teletoon Canada Inc. Canada channel Teletoon Canadian TV channel Teletoon , Family Channel Canadian TV Channel br Pop Girl United Kingdom TV Channel br HBO Family Asia picture format audio format first run first aired last aired status preceded by followed by related website website title production website Majority Rules is a Canadian tween comedy series which first aired on Teletoon Canadian TV channel Teletoon in 2009. The series is also dubbed Votez Becky for the French title. The production company Entertainment One E1 began filming for the first season on January 12, 2009. ref http www.imdb.com title tt1329005 Majority Rules series , Retrieved 2011 02 01. ref The show had the distinction of being the first regular program on Teletoon, an animation channel, to be almost exclusively live action ... title tt1329005 Majority Rules series , Retrieved 2011 02 01. ref Cast class wikitable Name Character ... Richards 11 episodes References references External links IMDb title 1329005 Majority Rules Category ... more details
majority of voters could not infringe upon the liberty of the rest of the people. One protection from ...nofootnotes date January 2011 Concurrent majority refers in general to the concept of preventing majorities from oppressing minorities by allowing various minority groups veto power over laws. The most vocal proponents of the theory have tended to be minority groups, such as farm ers in an Capitalism industrial society or nonwhites in a predominately white society. The concurrent majority is intended to prevent the tyranny of the majority that can otherwise occur in an unlimited democracy . Prior to the American Revolution , all governments were controlled by small minorities of ruling elites large parts of the population were completely enfranchisement disfranchised , even in countries like Switzerland whose governments local, regional, and federal were constitutionally democratic by modern standards. The conception of government that materialized during the separation of the United States from the United Kingdom marked movement away from such control towards wider enfranchisement . The problem of tyranny then became a problem of limiting the power of a majority. The US Constitution ... by states, and armed rebellion of citizens all created further obstacles to overbearing majority ... Carolina revived and expounded upon the concurrent majority doctrine. An ardent advocate of states rights ..., Calhoun argued more stridently for a requirement of concurrent majority by geographic region. Following ... declare specific federal laws void within the borders of the state, required a concurrent majority ... of concurrent majority had found little support in the Southern states outside of South Carolina ... K. Inventing the Concurrent Majority Madison, Calhoun, and the Problem of Majoritarianism in American ..., David M., Don E. Fehrenbacher and Carl N. Degler, eds. The South and the Concurrent Majority. 1973 ... stable 420348 in JSTOR DEFAULTSORT Concurrent Majority Category Political theories ... more details
the hosting responsibilities. Less than one year later, The Majority Report was born. In September ...For the British Parliamentary report published after the 1905 Royal Commission of the Poor Laws The majority report Poor Laws The Majority Report is a talk radio program originally on the Air America Radio network hosted by film actress comedienne Janeane Garofalo , and actor comedian Sam Seder , until Garofalo left in July 2006. Garofalo was reportedly originally asked by Air America to host the program and suggested Seder as a co host. The show focused on the discussion of current news events and political ... the majority report.php Gothamist in late August 2004, the inspiration for the radio program occurred ... the lead in to The Al Franken Show . The show retained many of the elements of The Majority ... on Friday, April 13, 2007. In November 2010, Seder relaunched The Majority Report as a self produced ... show The Young Turks . Garofalo once said getting on the radio was an early career goal of hers. One ... father Carmine, who was initially a regular guest on The Majority Report. Garofalo came ... of Friday, July 14, 2006 that she would be leaving her co host position on The Majority Report on the Wednesday ... a better choice to continue The Majority Report . Her endorsement of the above mentioned ... were cited including her outside acting responsibilities, which made her largely absent from The Majority ... Santos did not allow her to be in New York to co host The Majority Report for several weeks this allowed ... years. Her last broadcast as co host of The Majority Report aired on July 21, 2006. Garofalo returned ... The Majority Report as an independent online podcast . The format closely matches the previous ... defunct Trio TV network Trio cable network. The Majority Report also streams live, Monday through ... archives 2004 08 27 sam seder director writer comedian cohost the majority report.php Interview with Sam Seder about The Majority Report AAR DEFAULTSORT Majority Report Category American talk ... more details
pollster Frank Luntz , silent majority is but one of many labels which have been applied to the same ... Silent majority disambiguation . The silent majority is an unspecified large majority of people in a country ... Silent majority Cambridge Advanced Learner s Dictionary 1995 , accessed 22 2 2011. ref The term was popularized ... he said, And so tonight to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans I ask for your support. ref http www.watergate.info nixon silent majority speech 1969.shtml Nixon s Silent Majority ... the number of living people is less than the number who have died, so the dead are the majority in that sense. Phrases such as gone to a better world , gone before , and joined the silent majority served ... over to the silent majority, leaving the memory of their splendid courage. ref name Safire Voters around the world In May 1831, the phrase silent majority was spoken by Churchill C. Cambreleng , representative ... without full examination by the United States House of Representatives . Cambreleng s silent majority ... of a silent majority at a second reading when such become the rules of our legislation, the Congress ... majority with them. ref cite journal date month February year 1883 title Gambetta journal The Contemporary ... majority in Scotland were in his favour. Nixon Also in 1955, while Nixon was serving as vice president ... in Courage , Some of them may have been representing the actual sentiments of the silent majority ... majority in the nation. ref Perlstein, 2008, p. 212 ref ref cite book last Varon first Jeremy title ... 9, It is time for America s silent majority to stand up for its rights, and let us remember the American majority includes every minority. America s silent majority is bewildered by irrational protest ... Nixon s silent majority referred mainly to the older generation those World War II veterans ... served in Vietnam . The Silent Majority was mostly populated by blue collar white people who did not take ... peace. Appealing to the silent majority, Nixon asked for united support to end the war in a way ... more details
unreferenced date January 2008 In U.S. politics , the majority floor leader is a partisan position in a legislature legislative body. In the federal Congress, the roles differ slightly in the two houses the Majority Leader of the United States House of Representatives Majority Leader of the House of Representatives and the Majority Leader of the United States Senate Majority Leader of the Senate , respectively. In the House of Representatives, which chooses its own presiding officer, the leader of the majority party is elected the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives . The Majority Leader of the House of Representatives is something of a misnomer then, as the title is given to the majority party s second in command. In the United States Senate , its president is ex officio the Vice President of the United States , and the President pro tempore of the United States Senate President pro tempore is a largely ceremonial position, so the majority leader is the actual leader of the majority party. The role of majority leaders thus differs slightly between the two chambers. Given the two party nature of the U.S. system, the majority leader is almost inevitably either a United States Republican Party Republican or a United States Democratic Party Democrat . The majority leader is often assisted in his role by whip politics whips , whose job is to enforce party discipline on votes deemed to be crucial by the party leadership and to ensure that members do not vote in a way not approved of by the party. Some votes are deemed to be so crucial as to lead to punitive measures ... made by the majority leader in conjunction with other senior party leaders. In the various states, the majority leader of a state legislative chamber usually performs a similar role to the federal counterpart. See also Specific majority leaders Majority Leader of the United States House of Representatives Majority Leader of the United States Senate Minority leader US gov stub Category ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 An ethnic majority refers to a condition in which a particular ethnic group comprises the majority of a particular population. It is frequently based on genealogy . For example, we can refer to the Caucasian race , or the Asian people Asian race , or the black race . However, it can also refer to a commonality in cultural or religious practices, as well as linguistic or behavioral practices. For more information, refer to majority , minority group minority , and or ethnicity . See also high elite DEFAULTSORT Ethnic Majority Category Ethnicity ... more details
Electoral systems Majority Judgment is a single winner voting system proposed by Michel Balinski and Rida Laraki. Voters freely grade each candidate in one of several named ranks, for instance from excellent to bad , and the candidate with the highest median grade is the winner. If more than one candidate has the same median grade, a tiebreaker is used which sees the closest to median grade. Majority ... by sorting their list of grades and finding the middle one. If the middle falls between two different ... candidates share the highest median grade, all other candidates are eliminated. Then, one copy of that grade ... be Fair . After removing one Fair from each list, the new lists are, respectively, Good , Good , Poor ... criteria Primary section date October 2011 Majority Judgment voting satisfies the majority criterion for rated ballots, the mutual majority criterion , the monotonicity criterion , and later ... of irrelevant alternatives criterion ref Balinski and Laraki, Majority Judgment , p. 217 ref although this latter criterion is incompatible with the majority criterion if voters shift their judgments in order to express their preferential voting preferences between the available candidates. Majority ... reversal symmetry. Majority Judgment voting fails the Condorcet criterion , ref Strategically in the strong ... for voting systems consistency , ref Majority judgment s inventors argue that meaning should be assigned to the absolute rating that the system assigns to a candidate that if one electorate rates candidate X as excellent and Y as good , while another one ranks X as fair and Y as poor , these two electorates ... Majority Judgment passes. Balinski and Laraki, https 1007421605497013616 a 1802744773732722657 ... a slightly weakened version, the majority condorcet loser criterion, in which all defeats are by an absolute majority for instance, if there aren t equal rankings . ref and the participation criterion ... of ratings is more sharply peaked or irregular for one of the candidates. ref It also fails the ranked ... more details
Simple majority may refer to In American and Canadian usage Majority , a voting requirement of more than half of all ballots cast Usage elsewhere Plurality voting Plurality , a voting requirement of more ballots cast for a proposition than for any other option disambig Category Elections Category Voting de Mehrheit Einfache Mehrheit ... more details
Working majority describes a parliamentary majority big enough for the party or faction in power to carry through most of its legislative programme without the risk of parliamentary defeat. ref http www.allwords.com word working majority.html definition from allwords ref References Reflist Category Political terms Poli term stub ... more details
orphan date November 2009 A temporary majority exists when the positions of the members present and voting in a meeting of a deliberative assembly on a subject are not representative of the membership as a whole. It is in contrast to a real majority. ref name RONR Robert s Rules of Order RONR 10th ed. , p. 208 ref Parliamentary procedure contains some provisions designed to protect against a temporary majority violating the rights of wikt absentee absentee s. For instance, previous notice is required to rescind, repeal or annul or amend something previously adopted by a majority vote if previous notice has not been given, a two thirds vote is required. ref RONR 10th ed. , p. 295 ref However, in this and many other cases, previous notice is not required if a majority of the entire membership votes in favor, because that indicates that it is clearly not a temporary majority. Another protection against a decision being made by a temporary majority is the motion to reconsider and enter on the minutes , by which two members can suspend action on a measure until it is called up at a meeting on another day. ref RONR 10th ed. p. 324 ref If the motion to lay on the table another motion is used with the intent to kill that motion, there may be a possibility that a temporary majority will later take it from the table and act on it accordingly, it is better to instead use move to postpone indefinitely the motion. ref name RONR References reflist Category Parliamentary procedure ... more details
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