The Secretary promulgated the Constitution of American Samoa which was approved by a Constitutional Convention of the people of American Samoa and a majority of the voters of American Samoa voting at the 1966 election, and came into effect in 1967.

Amendments to the Convention must be supported by a two-thirds majority who are " present and voting " and can be made during an extraordinary meeting of the COP if one-third of the Parties are interested in such a meeting.

On 17 January 1793 Louis was condemned to death for " conspiracy against the public liberty and the general safety " by a close majority in Convention: 361 voted to execute the king, 288 voted against, and another 72 voted to execute him subject to a variety of delaying conditions.

During the Revolution of 1789, city officials had proposed to the Convention to rename Versailles Berceau-de-la-Liberté (" Cradle of Liberty "), but they had to retract their proposal when confronted with the objections of the majority of the population.

The Human Rights Act 1998 incorporates the great majority of Convention rights directly into UK law.

He presided over the Assembly as the Girondist held the majority, until it was replaced by the National Convention, elected in order to design a new constitution.

At the time of King Louis XVI's trial, the Girondists had, however, lost their majority in the Convention.

The Committee of Ministers may, by majority vote, request the Court to give advisory opinions on legal questions concerning the interpretation of the European Convention on Human Rights, unless the matter relates to the content and scope of fundamental rights which the Court already considers.

The Convention defines a child as any human being under the age of eighteen, unless under states own domestic legislation majority is attained earlier.

Federalist No. 10, in which Madison discusses the means of preventing rule by majority faction and advocates a large, commercial republic, is generally regarded as the most important of the 85 articles from a philosophical perspective ; it is complemented by Federalist No. 14, in which Madison takes the measure of the United States, declares it appropriate for an extended republic, and concludes with a memorable defense of the constitutional and political creativity of the Federal Convention.

The Federal Convention attempts to elect a president by an absolute majority of votes cast.

At the Convention, a republic gained majority support ( 89 votes to 52 with 11 abstentions ), but the question of what model for a republic should be put to the people at a referendum produced deep divisions among republicans.

The bi-partisan appointment model was eventually successful at the Convention, even though it only obtained a majority because of 22 abstentions in the final vote ( 57 against delegates voted against the model and 73 voted for, three votes short of an actual majority of delegates ).

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child defines a child as " a human being below the age of 18 years unless under the law applicable to the child, majority is attained earlier ".

The split resulted from a vote at the first IRA Convention where a two-thirds majority voted that Republicans should take their seats if elected to the British, Irish or Northern Ireland Parliaments.

Writing for the Court majority in Wesberry, Justice Black argued that a reading of the debates of the Constitutional Convention demonstrated conclusively that the Framers had meant, in using the phrase “ by the People ,” to guarantee equality of representation in the election of Members of the House of Representatives.

At the National Women's Rights Convention, October 23 – 24, 1850, 900 people showed up, men forming the majority, with several newspapers reporting over a thousand attendees by the afternoon of the first day.

Other United Nations documents and decisions related to child support enforcement include the 1956 New York Convention on the Recovery Abroad of Maintenance created under the auspices of the United Nations, which was ratified by the vast majority of UN member nations.

The Girondists, who had a majority in the Convention, controlled the executive council and filled the ministry, believed themselves invincible.

A European Convention was founded shortly afterward which was chaired by former French President Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing and composed of two Members of Parliament ( generally one from the governing majority and one from the opposition ) of each Member State and applicant state, 16 MEPs, 2 members of the European Commission and a representative from each government.

The CDU / CSU had also reached a majority in the Federal Convention electing the President of Germany, and in 1979 the party nominated Carstens, though in contestation due to his Nazi past, as candidate, whereafter incumbent President Walter Scheel ( FDP ) chose to renounce a second term.

All seven sites are in modern-day Turkey and no longer have significant Christian populations because the majority of the Greek population had been deported under the Convention Concerning the Exchange of Greek and Turkish Populations signed by Greece and Turkey.

Warner's " compromise " ( approved by a Republican majority ) authorized the President to establish permissible interrogation techniques and to " interpret the meaning and application " of international Geneva Convention standards, so long as the coercion falls short of " serious " bodily or psychological injury.

Although leftist guerrillas and right-wing death squads also engaged in summary executions, forced disappearances, and torture of noncombatants, the vast majority of human rights violations were carried out by the Guatemalan military and the PACs they controlled.

The majority of Italian regions require " zero upward light ", which usually implies use of overall full cut-off lamps for new luminaries, but violations are common.

Firstly, it is the extent of self-determination a people are given to protect themselves and determine how they wish to be ruled and what role is played by human rights violations, cultural eradication and pogroms by the Azerbaijani majority against the Armenian communities of Azerbaijan in a decision.

This happened despite the fact that General Klaus Naumann ( Chairman of NATO Military Committee ) stated that Ambassador Walker stated in the NAC ( North Atlantic Council ) that the majority of violations was caused by the KLA.

The majority of these traffic violations are written to out-of-state drivers, travelling on Interstate 10, which bisects the county ..

Between the trial and the executions there were widespread protests and claims of antisemitism ; the charges of antisemitism were widely believed abroad, but not among the vast majority in the United States, where the Rosenbergs did not receive any support from mainstream Jewish organizations nor from the American Civil Liberties Union ; the ACLU would not acknowledge any violations of civil liberties.

In response, CEO Dave Hackett stated that " the airline does not have safety violations " and " the vast majority of findings were not violations at all ".

The SLMM's reaction on this fact ( that the majority of violations is done by the LTTE ) is that the parties have the responsibility for the CFA ( Cease Fire Agreement ).

Though human rights violations were committed by both sides, the great majority of abuses against civilians, and actions leading to famine, were committed by the government.

Although leftist guerrillas and right-wing death squads also engaged in summary executions, forced disappearances, and torture of non-combatants, the vast majority of human rights violations were carried out by the military and the PACs they controlled.

A majority of MindFreedom members are thought to identify themselves as survivors of human rights violations in the mental health system ; membership, however, is open to anyone who supports human rights, including mental health professionals, advocates, activists and family members.

Writing for the majority, Ruth Bader Ginsburg held that injury to the plaintiff came from lessening the " aesthetic and recreational values of the area " for residents and users of the river because of their knowledge of Laidlaw ’ s repeated violations of its clean water permit.

Supreme Court Justice Byron White wrote the decision for the majority

Supreme Court Justice Byron White wrote the decision for the majority.

The interpretations of these courts-for example, Supreme Court interpretations of the constitution or federal statutes-are stable only so long as the older interpretation maintains the support of a majority of the court.

An attempt to increase majority elements by tweaking the system parameters ( more smaller districts, d ' Hondt method used ) by ČSSD and ODS during their " opposition agreement " 1998 – 2002 was vehemently opposed by smaller parties and blocked by the Constitutional Court as going too much against the constitution-stated proportional principle ; only a moderated form was adopted.

A bare majority of Congress, acting in a special session called by former President Lucio Gutiérrez in December, 2004, ousted 27 of the 31 justices and replaced them with new members chosen by Congress, notwithstanding the lack of any provisions permitting impeachment of Supreme Court justices by Congress and the specific provisions giving the Court the power to select new members.

Earlier, in November 2004, Congress replaced the majority of judges on the country's Electoral Court and Constitutional Court by a similar process.

This was later reversed during 2002 in a landmark case before the US Supreme Court, Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, in which the divided court, in a 5-4 decision, ruled the Ohio school voucher plan constitutional and removed any constitutional barriers to similar voucher plans in the future, with moderate justices Anthony Kennedy and Sandra Day O ' Connor and conservative justices William Rehnquist, Antonin Scalia, and Clarence Thomas in the majority.

In May 1565 she wrote to Cecil, urging that the money from family properties set aside for Oxford's use during his minority by his father's will should be entrusted to herself and other family friends to protect it and ensure that he would be able to meet the expenses of furnishing his household and suing his livery when he reached his majority ; this last would end his wardship though cancelling his debt with that Court, and convey the powers attached to his title.

When the Court renders its decision, it will generally do so in a single majority opinion and one or more dissenting opinions.

The majority of franchisors have inserted mandatory arbitration clauses into their agreements with their franchisees, some of which the U. S. Supreme Court has dealt with.

The Arab countries ( all of which had opposed the plan ) proposed to query the International Court of Justice on the competence of the General Assembly to partition a country against the wishes of the majority of its inhabitants, but were again defeated.

The majority of the lawsuit was dismissed in April 2004, when an Alameda County Superior Court judge ruled that the case lacked merit since none of the other partners took part in the lawsuit.

Justice Breyer, who dissented, wrote in his most recent book that if he could change three of his dissenting opinions ( while on the Supreme Court ) into a majority, this would be one of them.

On 19 March 2006, the voting members of the South Sydney club voted ( in a 75. 8 % majority ) to allow Crowe and businessman Peter Holmes à Court to purchase 75 % of the organisation, leaving 25 % ownership with the members.

In June 2012, the majority of SB 1070 was struck down by the United States Supreme Court, while the provision allowing for an immigration check on detained persons was upheld.

While the U. S. Supreme Court majority in 1896 Plessy explicitly upheld only " separate but equal " facilities ( specifically, transportation facilities ), Justice John Marshall Harlan in his dissent protested that the decision was an expression of white supremacy ; he predicted that segregation would " stimulate aggressions … upon the admitted rights of colored citizens ," " arouse race hate " and " perpetuate a feeling of distrust between races.

In McGowan v. Maryland ( 1961 ), the Supreme Court of the United States held that contemporary Maryland blue laws ( typically, Sunday rest laws ) were intended to promote the secular values of " health, safety, recreation, and general well-being " through a common day of rest, and that this day coinciding with majority Christian Sabbath neither reduces its effectiveness for secular purposes nor prevents adherents of other religions from observing their own holy days.

The Court ruled 5-4 to let the tax credit program stand In April 2011, a Fairleigh Dickinson University PublicMind poll found that a majority of American voters ( 60 %) felt that the tax credits support school choice for parents whereas 26 % felt as it the tax credits support religion.

In the case of proposed Quebec separation from Canada the Supreme Court of Canada in 1998 ruled that only both a clear majority of the province and a constitutional amendment confirmed by all participants in the Canadian federation could allow secession.

As the UN grounds for the effective execution of international law ( such as International Court of Justice ) and UN represents international character for a state after World War II ( such as United Nations General Assembly and United Nations Security Council ), consequently, a majority of the aligned countries during Cold War in the Western world camp decided to terminate official diplomatic relations to ROC and recognize People's Republic of China instead.

" The majority Court Party was generally Anglican, strongest in Kent and Sussex counties and worked well with the colonial Proprietary government, and was in favor of reconciliation with the British government.

For the first time, judicial determination was sought, but the effort proved futile: the Supreme Court could not find a majority agreeing on any particular principle, and therefore instructed the trial court to dismiss the case.