Advocates of the current system argue that these electors could then choose a suitable replacement ( who would most likely come from the same party of the candidate who won the election ) more competently than could the general voting public.

Advocates of vote pairing tend to simultaneously advocate instant-runoff voting in election reform.

Advocates of union with Canada denounced the Economic Union Party as republican, disloyal and anti-British ; Britain refused to allow the voting populace the option to choose union with the U. S., and the U. S. State Department, needing British and Canadian cooperation during the Second World War, decided not to interfere.

Advocates of voting representation for the District of Columbia argue that as citizens living in the United States, the more than 600, 000 residents of Washington, D. C., should have the same right to determine how they are governed as citizens of a state.

Advocates of voting rights legislation claim that Article I, Section 8, Clause 17 ( the District Clause ), which grants Congress " exclusive " legislative authority over the District, also allows the Congress to pass legislation that would grant D. C. voting representation in the Congress.

Advocates for D. C. voting rights have proposed several, competing reforms to increase the District's representation in the Congress.

Advocates of proportional representation suggest that a coalition government leads to more consensus-based politics, in that a government comprising differing parties ( often based on different ideologies ) would need to concur in regard to governmental policy.

Advocates are often normal users who devote their spare time to advocacy of their operating system of choice ; many have a deep and abiding interest in the use, design and construction of operating systems and an emotional investment in their favourite operating system.

Advocates of pan-Arabism have often espoused socialist principles and strongly opposed Western political involvement in the Arab world.

Advocates for gun rights often claim that past totalitarian regimes passed gun control legislation, which was later followed by confiscation, with Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany during World War II, as well as some communist states being cited as examples.

" Advocates of these " cultural segments " are often zealous and overstated in their attempts to redefine generational boundaries, often claiming wide adoption and sometimes advancing self-promotional agendas.

Advocates of affirmative action programs often deny that these programs involve quotas, although some openly do, such as the admission program of the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul.

Advocates of the " age old sport " often list cultural and religious relevance as reasons for perpetuation of cockfighting as a sport, but secular cockfighting is not to be confused with the religious, spiritual and sacred cockfight.

Advocates of prototype-based programming often argue that class-based languages encourage a model of development that focuses first on the taxonomy and relationships between classes.

Advocates of natural childbirth and unassisted birth state that this intervention is often performed without medical necessity, with significant damage to the person giving birth.

Advocates of counterfactual history often respond that all statements about causality in history contain implicit counterfactual claims — for example, the claim that a certain military decision helped a country win a war presumes that if that decision had not been made, the war would have been less likely to be won, or would have been longer.

Advocates of perspectives stressing the role of credit money in an economy often refer to ( such ) bubbles as " credit bubbles ," and look at such measures of financial leverage as debt to GDP ratios to identify bubbles.

Advocates of Irish Home Rule or of Trade Unionism ( the Tolpuddle Martyrs ) often received sentences of deportation to these Australian colonies.

In most years, only a few students withdraw in the face of an honor charge or after investigations and closed hearings conducted by the Executive Committee of the Student Body, the University's elected student government ( with the accused counseled by Honor Advocates, often law students ).

Advocates of the open source principles often point to Wikipedia as an example, but Wikipedia has in fact often restricted certain types of use or user.

Advocates often suggest local purchasing as a form of moral purchasing.

Advocates of green broadband schemes and more competitive telecom services often advocate aggressive expansion of transit exchanges into every municipal area network so that competing service providers can place such equipment as video on demand hosts and PSTN switches to serve existing phone equipment, without being answerable to any monopoly incumbent.

Advocates of offshore banking often characterise government regulation as a form of tax on domestic banks, reducing interest rates on deposits.

Advocates reply that the grades worn by state defense force members accurately reflect the many years of experience that veterans ( often military or naval retirees ) bring to the state forces.

Advocates of community policing often cite this shift into vehicles, and away from face to face contact, as a reason for breakdowns in relations with the community.

Advocates note that spelling reforms have taken place already, just slowly and often not in an organized way.

For more than 300 years, the Faculty has maintained within Parliament House the Advocates ' Library, often regarded as the finest working law library in the United Kingdom.

Advocates often point out that industrial democracy increases productivity and service delivery from a more fully engaged and happier workforce.

Advocates such as Jane Jacobs argue that this enables an economically depressed region to pull itself up, by giving the people living there a medium of exchange that they can use to exchange services and locally produced goods ( In a broader sense, this is the original purpose of all money.

Advocates of central bank independence argue that a central bank which is too susceptible to political direction or pressure may encourage economic cycles (" boom and bust "), as politicians may be tempted to boost economic activity in advance of an election, to the detriment of the long-term health of the economy and the country.

Advocates of free-market socialism, such as Jaroslav Vanek, argue that genuine free markets are not possible under conditions of private ownership over productive property because the class differences and inequalities in income and power that ensue from this arrangement enable interests of the dominant class to skew the market to their favor, either in the form of monopoly and market power, or by utilizing their wealth and resources to pass government regulations and policies that benefit their specific business interests.

Advocates of Keynesian economics argue that private sector decisions sometimes lead to inefficient macroeconomic outcomes which require active policy responses by the public sector, particularly monetary policy actions by the central bank and fiscal policy actions by the government to stabilize output over the business cycle.

Advocates argue that design evolution should occur deterministically and strictly under human control, using the conventional engineering paradigm of modeling, design, prototyping, testing, analysis, and redesign.

Advocates of laissez-faire capitalism generally argue that permanent natural monopolies are merely theoretical.

Advocates of Condorcet methods argue that a candidate can claim to have majority support only if they are the " Condorcet winner " – that is, the candidate who would beat every other candidate in a series of one-on-one elections.

Advocates of school choice argue that this competition for students ( and the education dollars that come with them ) create a catalyst for schools to create innovative programs, become more responsive to parental demands, and to increase student achievement.

Advocates of Agile software development argue the waterfall model is a bad idea in practice — believing it impossible for any non-trivial project to finish a phase of a software product's lifecycle perfectly before moving to the next phases and learning from them.

Advocates argue that these hunters allow for anti-poaching activities and revenue for local communities.

Advocates of solar energy argue that widespread use of solar collection can mitigate overheating of urban environments by absorbing sunlight and putting it to work instead of heating the foreign surface objects.

Advocates of local currency, such as Jane Jacobs, argue that this enables an economically cool, yet depressed region to pull itself up by giving the people living there a medium of exchange they can use to exchange services and locally-produced goods.

Advocates of local currency in effect argue that, in certain circumstances, an entire country is not an optimum currency area, and that various regions should have different currencies.

Advocates of laissez-faire capitalism, such as some economists of the Austrian School, argue that there is no such phenomenon as " market failures ".

Advocates of gender-neutral language argue that language is rich in alternatives that speakers and writers, sensitive to attitudes and beliefs of audiences, can use without impinging on the effectiveness of their communication.

Advocates argue that family farms in all nations need to be protected, as the basis of rural society and social stability.

Advocates of the former, the Normative Principle, argue that attributions of intentional idioms to physical systems should be the propositional attitudes that the physical system ought to have in those circumstances ( Dennett 1987, 342 ).

Advocates argue that any other type of sexual education would promote sex outside of marriage, which they hold to be immoral and risky.

Advocates of sound finance ( in the US known as fiscal conservatism ) reject Keynesianism and, in the strongest form, argue that government should always run a balanced budget ( and a surplus to pay down any outstanding debt ), and that deficit spending is always bad policy.

Advocates of social promotion argue that promotion is done in order to not harm the students ' or their classmates ' self-esteem, to encourage socialization by age ( together with their age cohort ), to facilitate student involvement in sports teams, or to promote a student who is weak in one subject on the basis of strength in the other areas.

Advocates of disability rights emphasise difference in physical or psychological functioning, rather than inferiority — for example, some people with autism argue for acceptance of neurodiversity, much as opponents of racism argue for acceptance of ethnic diversity.