Übersetzung für "Herrschaft der mehrheit" in Englisch

In this model, there is a danger of unlimited rule of the majority.

Protestants replied that if a vote were held within the geographical area of the entire island, the Catholic majority would rule.

This explains why Syria’s Christian and Druze minorities now support Assad, and why the Copts in Egypt support military rule: democratic majoritarian rule means Muslim hegemony.

But democracy is not just about the free elections and the constitutional rule of the majority.

Our second priority is to create a Europe which respects human rights and public freedoms both within the Community and in the wider world, a Europe concerned with achieving genuine equality, not a quantitative or arithmetical equality but a qualitative equality between men and

It obliges Member States to notify in advance all aid measures to the industry coming within the scope of approved aid schemes when the cost of the project aided exceeds ECU 12 million. It contains detailed rules on the extent of this obligation, including the submission of annual reports by Member States to the Commission containing all aid granted to the industry and spells out guidelines for the appreciation of the various types of aid cases.

Saudi Arabia still loathes the idea of a democratic Iraq under majority Shia rule.

Nkumbula became increasingly influenced by white liberals and was seen as willing to compromise on the fundamental issue of majority rule.

When they were rebuffed by the overwhelming majority of the party at the May 1953 Plenum, they agreed in writing to abide by the rule of the majority and the political line as decided by the Plenum.

It is the highly esteemed western ideal, but nothing more than a dictatorial corrupt mob rule, because it constantly violates the inherent rights of individuals, or any minority by the omnipotent rule of the majority, which doesn’t respect the natural rights of individuals above the demands of majorities.

Therefore the so-called direct democracy is not a people’s rule, but at best a majority rule.

To secure this we must have everybody vote without distinction of classes and qualifications, in order to establish an absolute majority, which cannot be got from the educated propertied classes.

In this model, there is a danger of unlimited rule of the majority. To prevent this there must exist minority rights.

The committee of safety, composed of deputies from almost all the popular bodies of Vienna, although resolved to resist, was yet dominated by a majority of burghers and petty tradesmen, who never allowed it to follow up any determined, energetic line of action.

Trotsky's warning against "substitutionism" and his emphasis on the rule of "the immense majority in the interests of the immense majority" as the only guarantee against it is indeed a crying contradiction to his call for a workers' government in 1905 and 1917, when the workers were a tiny minority.

If Democracy as Americans know it is ma­jority rule in a national sense, it must be so in an international sense as well.

With the average age of judges now at around 40, the efforts to bring the judiciary under control of the rule of the majority cannot conceivably be about taking levers of power out of post-communist hands, as Law and Justice claims.

In the context of the surging clamour for democracy that has begun to spread in many countries of the Middle East through the so-called “Arab Spring”, and in view of the social conditions in most of these countries, where Christians are a minority, is there not a risk of an inevitable tension between the dominant majority and the survival of Christianity?

There is no question that literature is least of all subject to· mechanical adjustment or levelling, to the rule of the majority over the minority.

Democracy means rule by the people, not just rule by the majority, or the biggest group in parliament.

The revolution, then, was really a dictatorship of the workers over other classes in the towns – in the major towns the rule of the majority in Soviets – and a dictatorship of the towns over the country.

We need to restore the original meaning of the term: the democracy is the rule of the majority, of organic majority, majority sharing common identity – that is the rule of the People as the historic and cultural unity.

They therefore see its rule over them as illegitimate, which is precisely the point: the logic of popular sovereignty requires an idea of collective agency based on a sense of individual belonging that is much stronger than in our lecture audience.

The revolution, then, was really a dictatorship of the workers over other classes in the towns – in the major towns the rule of the majority in Soviets – and a dictatorship of the towns over the country. In the first period of the division of the estates this dictatorship could rely upon peasant support, indeed, was defended by peasant bayonets.

In our present time, what we have are democratic nations which are being ruled by people. And in a democracy what prevails is the rule of the majority. Hence, from that aspect alone, we can already see that there is a very great difference between democracy and theocracy.