But, how does a people hit the reset button when it requires at least 51 percent agreeing to do so and any such systemic reset will always run counter to the short-run interests of some majority agglomeration of minority interests?
Countries such as Germany, which come closer than most to believing in a common European interest, tend to talk of it in terms of the interests of a majority of EU countries, not the interests of all.
The bigger the majority in whose interests the government is ruling, the larger the encompassing interest.
"The economic crisis has wiped out the majority of those interests, " he says.
These days he tells the hungry black majority that he has their interests at heart, while reassuring businessmen that he will not switch to high-tax redistribution.
These do not add up to an ideological revolution so much as a big shift in power away from narrow, outdated interest-groups and towards the interests of the majority of Japanese.
ECONOMIST: Japan's election: The woodpecker and the lumberjack | The
Though it has cushioned the effects of Serbia's blockade, this aid has not so far been effective enough to convince a clear majority of Montenegrins that their interests are served by pro-western policies.
And with Tony Blair, Britain's prime minister, clearly determined to push through a settlement, such an abdication is damaging to the interests of the Protestant majority.
Many of those who do know what the slogan means (that the party must represent China's advanced productive forces, its advanced culture and the interests of the overwhelming majority of the people) find the notion soporific.
Today, the Wahhabi ideology continues to be characterized by a set of doctrinal beliefs and behavior prescriptions that are often inimical to the values and interests of the vast majority of Muslims in the world to say nothing about those of non-Muslims.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Alexiev testifies on Wahhabi influence in US
Second, let us accept, whatever our differences over the war, it is in all our interests and in the interests of the peaceful majority in the Muslim world that Iraq be helped to be a sovereign, independent, stable, democratic state, where there is religious tolerance, human rights and equality for all.
What I said -- and I will provide you with a quote -- what I said was is that Ronald Reagan was a transformative political figure because he was able to get Democrats to vote against their economic interests to form a majority to push through their agenda, an agenda that I objected to.
In Bolivia, the followers of Morales are not an overwhelming majority and the opposition defending their attacked interests did not remain passive.
Joe is the founder of online discount brokerage TD Ameritrade and he presides over the family interests, which include a majority stake in the Chicago Cubs.
FORBES: Wal-Mart Heir Donates To Obama PAC, Defying Rest Of Billionaire Family
In the midst of a capitalist pursuit of productivity at the expense of local laborers, Marx saw the bourgeoisie as rigging the system against the working majority in order to benefit its own special interests and maintain its preeminence.
FORBES: American Activists Foolishly Take A Page From 'Communist Manifesto'
War there has been waged between the Sri Lankan government, tending to represent the interests of Sri Lanka's majority, and predominately Buddhist, Sinhalese ethnic group, and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, who claim to represent the mostly Hindu Tamil minority.
It would be a shame if House Republicans, led by the Majority Leader, at the urging of Wall Street interests and other inside-the-Beltway forces, watered down the tough but common-sense measures supported by Republicans and Democrats alike.
Sterry believes majority shareholder Lord Ashcroft and club directors have the Hornets' best interests at heart.
The majority of developing countries feel that some of their most important trade interests have been neglected by the richer countries.
It disserves this country's interests and those of people worldwide who aspire to freedom (surely a majority of the globe's population).
By introducing the levy, Mr Obama has pandered to a single union, one that does not even represent a majority of American tyre-industry workers, and he has done so against the interests of everyone else (see article).
The majority of Americans worry more about candidates who have to go cap in hand to special interests, which then expect a payback, than about money-bags who put their own fortunes on the line.
For so long as Britain remains in a minority outside the monetary union, its interests (such as the City of London bond markets) will be fair game for the majority inside it.
HSBC, a London-based banking group with large interests in Hong Kong, switched its reporting from sterling to American dollars on the ground that the majority of its revenues are in the greenback or currencies linked to it, such as the Hong Kong dollar.
Consequently, the right answer for Turkey, for the United States and for their shared interests, is to have the Turkish parliament swiftly reconsider its vote and approve the resolution by the required majority.
The majority of students are put through the same brainwashing techniques in order to create a complacent labor force working in the interests of large corporations and secretive government, and worst of all, they are completely unaware of it.
应用推荐