To guard against the tyranny of a numerical majority, Calhoun developed his theory of `` concurrent majority '', which, he said, `` by giving to each portion of the community which may be unequally affected by the action of government, a negative on the others, prevents all partial or local legislation ''.

Borrowing in anticipation of current taxes and other revenues is a routine procedure of the majority of municipalities at all times.

And while all concerned are members of the literal public, somewhat less than all concerned, although still a majority, form the quotation marked `` public ''.

An action once universally condemned by all Christian churches and forbidden by the civil law is now not only approved by the overwhelming majority of Protestant denominations, but also deemed, at certain times, to be a positive religious duty.

For all concerned with social-welfare legislation, the significance of this radical and revolutionary change in the thought and habits of the vast majority of the American people is clear, profound and far-reaching.

Sandman told the gathering that reports from workers on a local level all over the state indicate that Jones will be chosen the Republican Party's nominee with the largest majority given a candidate in recent years.

There were fusion tickets in which all of Lincoln's opponents combined to support the same slate of Electors in New York, New Jersey, and Rhode Island, but even if the anti-Lincoln vote had been combined in every state, Lincoln still would have won a majority in the Electoral College.

In a culture that set a high value on oratory and public performances of all kinds, in which the production of books was very labor-intensive, the majority of the population was illiterate, and where those with the leisure to enjoy literary works also had slaves to read for them, written texts were more likely to be seen as scripts for recitation than as vehicles of silent reflection.

Primitive Baptists in the Appalachian region often used " New Britain " with other hymns, and sometimes sing the words of " Amazing Grace " to other folk songs, including titles such as " In the Pines ", " Pisgah ", " Primrose ", and " Evan ", as all are able to be sung in common meter, of which the majority of their repertoire consists.

Assault in some US jurisdictions is defined more broadly still as any intentional physical contact with another person without their consent ; but in the majority of the United States, and in England and Wales and all other common law jurisdictions in the world, this is defined instead as battery.

Congress passed a fourth Reconstruction Act ( again over a veto ) to provide for ratification of each state's constitution by a majority of those voting ( rather than requiring the vote to be all those registered ).

On all three occasions, 35 senators voted " guilty " and 19 " not guilty ", thus falling short by a single vote of the two-thirds majority required for conviction in impeachment trials.

It also remained the spoken tongue of the indigenous Assyrian / Babylonian citizens of all Mesopotamia under Persian, Greek and Roman rule, and indeed well into the Arab period it was still the language of the majority, particularly in the north of Mesopotamia, surviving to this day among the Assyrian Christians.

When the trade association began, it had seven members and its main goal was to eliminate all duties and restrictions on the majority of their trade within 12 years.

The dsDNA tailed phages, or Caudovirales, account for 95 % of all the phages reported in the scientific literature, and possibly make up the majority of phages on the planet.

Nearly all beer includes barley malt as the majority of the starch.

MAJSAT, which asks if the majority of all assignments make the formula true, is complete for PP, a probabilistic class.

Usually, a meeting which is held without notice having been given is still valid if all of the directors attend, but it has been held that a failure to give notice may negate resolutions passed at a meeting, because the persuasive oratory of a minority of directors might have persuaded the majority to change their minds and vote otherwise.

# the Mozarabic Breviary, once in use throughout all Spain, but now confined to a single foundation at Toledo ; it is remarkable for the number and length of its hymns, and for the fact that the majority of its collects are addressed to God the Son ;

During his rule, members of Yakoma were granted all key positions in the administration and made up a majority of the military.

Some states permit plaintiff's counsel to settle for all the mass action plaintiffs according to a majority vote, for example.

The majority of such attempts, however, except in a general manner, end in futility since " affinities " lie at the basis of all magic, thereby pre-dating science.

George Every claims that the existence of " myths in the Bible would now be admitted by nearly everyone ", including " probably all Roman Catholics and a majority of Protestants ".

Two members of the Democratic-endorsed majority on the school board said they probably would vote to appeal a ruling by the state Board of Education, which said yesterday that the school committee acted improperly in its appointment of the coordinator, Francis P. Nolan 3rd, the Democratic-endorsed committee chairman, could not be reached for comment.

This is a pedagogical movement with over 1000 Steiner or Waldorf schools ( the latter name stems from the first such school, founded in Stuttgart in 1919 ) located in some 60 countries ; the great majority of these are independent ( private ) schools.

Youth Cheer — high school ages and younger — make up the vast majority of cheerleaders and cheer teams.

LiveScience. com recaps new evidence showing that the most dangerous sport for high school and college females is cheerleading: Another study found that between 1982 and 2007, there were 103 fatal, disabling or serious injuries recorded among female high school athletes, with the vast majority ( 67 ) occurring in cheerleading.

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 large cities, a majority of working people and students eat their lunch at a corporate or school cafeteria, which normally serve complete meals as described above ; it is therefore not usual for students to bring their own lunch food.

Students of Imam Malik established the Maliki school of which a majority now can be found in North Africa and some Persian gulf states.

The three reasons that are selected by the majority of homeschooling parents in the United States are concern about the school environment, to provide religious or moral instruction, and dissatisfaction with academic instruction at public and private schools.

The majority of states ( and the District of Columbia ) have charter school laws.

Cyber charter schools deliver the majority of their instruction over the internet instead of in a school building.

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.

The majority of states ( and the District of Columbia ) have charter school laws.

Cyber charter schools deliver the majority of their instruction over the internet instead of in a school building.

After the basic school the majority of pupils between ages 15 – 19 usually choose to go through the 3-year " Gymnasium ", which is University-preparatory.

The majority of them are public and government-funded, although there are some diocesan upper secondary schools and a Waldorf upper secondary school, which are private and require tuition to be paid.

Twin Ridges Elementary in Nevada County, California held the first Green Party majority school board in the United States.

Most high school marching band competitions occur in the fall when the majority of schools begin classes.

The school was the subject of some controversy in the 1990s, but an Ofsted report published in January 2008 stated: " It is held in very high regard by the vast majority of students and their parents, and rightly so.

In Belgium, the school question was then sharply debated between the Catholic majority and the Liberal minority.

The majority of public and private schools in Denmark do not have school uniforms.

In the majority of elementary schools, students are not required to wear a uniform to school.

The majority of elementary schools except some private elementary schools do not have uniforms ; however, the uniform is strictly monitored from the start of middle school and up.

Many Southern states and school districts interpreted " Brown II " as legal justification for resisting, delaying, and avoiding significant integration for years — and in some cases for a decade or more — using such tactics as closing down school systems, using state money to finance segregated " private " schools, and " token " integration where a few carefully selected black children were admitted to former white-only schools but the vast majority remained in underfunded, unequal black schools.