You get to climb on top of a virtual bar, lie flat on your back and suck back a Vegas-sized margarita from a hose and funnel if [Sam Katz] unloads his favourite rhetorical howitzer: "I have not received one phone call, fax or email from a citizen of Winnipeg asking me to (insert the policy of your choice here). Classical philosophers drew a distinction between real democracy -- that is, electing representatives to make decisions and settle our arguments -- and something called "the tyranny of the majority," which unreconstituted Reformers and some U.S. Republicans like to call "direct democracy." So what does all of this have to do with Sam Katz? Quite a bit, as Winnipeg's mayor evoked an absence of phone calls, faxes and emails back in February to justify this city's continued freeze ...
..., which in extreme circumstances threatens tyranny and invites legislative or popular resistance. Fur... system, he nonetheless alluded to public choice in the legislature's composition: . If the Legisla...
... "oriental despotism," or managerial tyranny. . First, we must understand why the current idola...
... to the provisions governing the compulsory choice of a collective bargaining agent might give rise t...Governmental tyranny can manifest itself not only in constraints on ass...
... civilized community, which is not a mere tyranny, the power to judge and the power to enforce judge...Given this article's choice of case study, it seems apposite to note that, whe...
This paper sets the current debate about Canada's criminal law prohibiting polygamy in an historical, social and legal context, and argues that this law is constitutionally valid and sound social policy. Unlike the recognition of same-sex marriage, which promoted equality and saved government resources, the recognition of polygamy would promote inequality and impose costs on Canadian society. The social reality of polygamy is often exploitative of women and harmful to children, and its practice is contrary to fundamental Canadian values. If Canada's prohibition on polygamy is ruled unconstitutional, we would likely have to allow immigration by polygamous families. Western European countries, which allowed immigration by polygamous families in the past, experienced significant social and...
... with the orphans, marry women of your choice, two, or three, or four; but if you fear that you ... individuals and minorities from the "tyranny of the majority," in a constitutional democracy, t...
... political minorities against the tyranny of the majority strongly recommends a system of pr... majoritarian system." (19) Enhanced Voter Choice . The STV system would check party dominance not o...
... around the principle of keeping the 'tyranny of the majority' in check. Yet liberal democracy h... scale of action, planning is never a choice between redistribution and recognition; both are e...
[Jame Kopp] is a serial killer who, for ideological reasons, attempted to kill Canadian doctors and threatened the delivery of safe medical abortion services to women. The civilian, called Jack Steele to protect his identity, has done all Canadian women and doctors a monumental service. It is reported (Conviction but no reward, Nov. 28) that the task force decided not to pursue convictions in Canada, and folded their tents when Kopp was captured in France and convicted of killing a doctor in the U.S. Now it reportedly used this decision as an excuse not to pay their agreed half of the "reward" to the one who did the dangerous work and delivered the goods. So the editor does not like tyranny of the majority (Switzerland's bad example, Dec. 2). Would she prefer a tyranny of the elitists? ...
...Coalition for Reproductive Choice. Winnipeg. Merry Christmas. As a Canadian and an A...
..., as no deference was owed to the policy choices of the university as a private institution: at par...
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