• A concurrent majority is a majority composed of majorities within various subgroups. As a system of government, it means that "major government policy...
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    and enslavers. To protect minority rights against majority rule, he called for a concurrent majority by which the minority could block some proposals that...
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  • to the power of a majority. 19th century concurrent majority theories held logical counterbalances to standard tyranny of the majority harms originating...
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    opposition to slavery, the 100-page Disquisition promotes the idea of a concurrent majority in order to protect what he perceived to be the South's interests...
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  • Enactment of primary legislation often requires a concurrent majority—the approval of a majority of members in each of the chambers of the legislature...
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    reconciling societal fragmentation along ethnic and religious lines. Concurrent majority can be a precursor to consociationalism. A consociational democracy...
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  • up concurrency, concurrent, or concurrence in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Concurrent means happening at the same time. Concurrency, concurrent, or...
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  • Concurrent Versions System (CVS, or Concurrent Versioning System) is a version control system originally developed by Dick Grune in July 1986. CVS operates...
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  • In property law, a concurrent estate or co-tenancy is any of various ways in which property is owned by more than one person at a time. If more than one...
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    leader), while serving concurrently as chairman of the Senate Democratic Caucus. In 1925, the Republicans (who were in the majority at the time) also adopted...
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    Buchanan's project regarding generality norm is supported by Calhoun's concurrent majority developed in the Disquisition. In the Dictionary of Economics, Tullock...
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  • Edmund Burke, "Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol" John Calhoun, "The Concurrent Majority" Thomas Babington Macaulay, "Machiavelli" Voltaire, "English Men...
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  • A concurrent resolution is a resolution (a legislative measure) adopted by both houses of a bicameral legislature that lacks the force of law (is non-binding)...
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    a concurrency includes overlap, coincidence, duplex (two concurrent routes), triplex (three concurrent routes), multiplex (any number of concurrent routes)...
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    party leader serves as majority leader and the other as minority leader. Unlike the Senate majority leader, the House majority leader is the second highest-ranking...
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    It provided that the Senate and the House could, by a simple majority in a concurrent resolution, revoke the war powers granted to the president. Dirksen...
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    led the Senate Democratic Caucus from 2005 to 2017 and was the Senate Majority Leader from 2007 to 2015. After earning an undergraduate degree from Utah...
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  • deputy majority leaders serving concurrently assist the majority leader in his duties and assumes the latter's responsibilities when the majority leader...
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    secession would lead to a "concurrent majority" that would possess every white minority's consent, as opposed to a "tyrannical majority" of Northerners controlling...
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  • sentenced Lomax to six years to life for sexual assault, and a one-year concurrent sentence for the other two counts. Lomax immediately appealed to the Colorado...
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  • 1845–1876, Glenview, Ill.: Scott, Foresman, 1973. The South and the Concurrent Majority, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher and Carl N. Degler, Baton Rouge, LA:...
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  • Compulsory voting - Concession (politics) - Concord Principles - Concurrent majority - Condominium (international law) - Conference of Socialist Economists...
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    states, to require a "concurrent majority" between themselves and the national majority to choose a U.S. president. Without a majority of Southern Electoral...
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    being found guilty on all three counts of murder and sentenced to three concurrent terms of life imprisonment. Myra Hindley is convicted on two counts of...
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  • the government (bill of rights) but can also include requiring concurrent majorities in several constituencies (confederalism); guaranteeing regional...
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    voting. Voters can rank up to three candidates, and if no candidate wins a majority in the first round of voting, second and third preferences from ballots...
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  • sorties to deliver these supplies to the estimated 250,000 refugees, the majority of whom settled, for life, in Austria and England. One of the transport...
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  • all populations are equally powerful despite size--the model of concurrent majority that John C. Calhoun had advocated for, in which nothing can happen...
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    illustrated by Valeria Favoccia, and focuses on the characters Troy and James concurrent with the events of the second season, as the former struggles with PTSD...
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  • per year and ultimately purchased Concurrent Computer Corporation (a spinoff company that was part public but majority-owned by Perkin-Elmer) in 1988 in...
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