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Lex Majoris Partis: How the Senate Can End the Filibuster on Any Day by Simple Majority Rule
... that majority rule was the self-evident background principle that applied in the absence of a specific clause to the ...by majority vote—except when trying to override presidential vetoes, which ...
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Constructing majority-rule supertrees
... 16). Majority-rule (+) trees seem not to have such a bias, because the expansion process used to construct representative selections tends to put all input trees, regardless of their size, on equal ...
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The Rights (and Wrongs) of Majority Rule and Self Determination
... “majority rule and the government-versus-opposition pattern of politics that it implies may be inter- preted as undemocratic because they are principles of exclusion,” (quoted in Li- jphart, 2012: ...
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Majority Rule and Minority Protection under Companies Act 1956 with special reference to Foss vs. Harbottle
... also majority rule decides and upholds ...holding majority of the shareholding votes in favour of scheme of arrangement, the same shall be binding on several individuals, who constitute minority ...
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The (sub )optimality of the majority rule
... qualified majority rules, in (possibly asymmetric and non-neutral) environments without uncertainty about preference intensities, and with stochastically independent utility ...qualified majority ...
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On a continuous majority rule
... the majority rule which generalizes previous social welfare functions beyond discrete values, and using new ax- ioms, we will give a characterization of the continuous majority ...the majority ...
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?Majority Rule and Minority Protections: Theoretical Frameworks and National Practice in the Shadow of the EU: The Case of Ireland?
... regards private companies, legal systems should lean away from mandatory rules even where this means that the majority rule out the right to bring minority suits. 215 The Trojan work of a group of scholars ...
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Majority Rule: How the Ballot Initiative Process Hurts Minorities
... Many would likely agree that the initiative process came about for the right reasons. In a democracy, those governed have the right to demand more from their government. But as this section demonstrates, while the ...
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Majority rule in the absence of a majority
... Second, even if the matter is truth-apt, it is sometimes doubtful whether a sound statistical argument is available. Consider, for example, the aforementioned Condorcet- Young maximum likelihood argument for the median ...
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Market selection and payout policy under majority rule
... First, I argue that in any asymmetric equilibrium some shareholders remain uninformed while some others acquire information in the event a repurchase takes place. The explanation is as follows. If only firm i repurchased ...
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Renegotiation of social contracts by majority rule
... the majority to extract a surplus from the minority by conditioning taxes and transfers on signals that are correlated with ...interim majority, it may be worthwhile for agents to invest in costly ...
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CP-consensus: a Blockchain Protocol Based on Synchronous Timestamps of Compass Satellite
... the majority-rule, so if, at the fork station, the secret chain is accepted by a majority of record-nodes, then selfish miners ...a majority of record-nodes with a high ...
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A discernable and manageable standard for partisan gerrymandering
... the majority rule standard can be derived from the requirement that the House of Representatives be elected by the people and from the equal protection of individual ...
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The double majority voting rule of the EU Reform Treaty as a democratic ideal for an enlarging union: an appraisal using voting power analysis
... Double Majority rule is that a decision taken by QMV should require the support of 55 percent of the member countries whose combined populations are at least 65 percent of the EU ...triple-majority ...
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Maximum likelihood detection for cooperative molecular communication
... In the following figures, we clarify that the value of Q ∗ FC is the minimum Q FC by numerically optimizing the correspond- ing constant decision thresholds of SD-ML, the majority rule, and the simple soft ...
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Corporate Voting
... this rule leads to an indecisive result. The shareholder majority rule is also a balanced quota rule, as both of its’ quotas are equal to ...
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An Insightful Study of the Oppression Remedy under South African and Canadian Corporate Law
... the majority rule would always be there to qualify any type of action brought by a minority shareholder if it related to conduct that the majority could do ordinarily in the course of its ...
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PP 2013 11: Binary Aggregation by Selection of the Most Representative Voter
... distance-based rule, and it is optimal if (1, 1, 1) is ...voter rule (selecting the voter who is closest to the “vector of averages”) and the majority-voter rule (selecting the voter who is ...
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Epistemic democracy with correlated voters
... Aside from voter correlation, another important issue in epistemic social choice theory is the tradeoff between group size and average voter competency. Suppose we could arrange the voters in order from most ...
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The Exclusionary Rule’s Applicability in Deportation Hearings: INS v. Lopez-Mendoza
... rule in deportation proceedings outweigh the rule's deterrence value. Four justices dissented. Of the dissenters, Justice White 63 was closest to the majority in his appr[r] ...
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