EU's members support the extension of majority voting in principle.
And, yes, a very small fraction of Democrats may have voted here, but the overwhelming majority of Democrats support the principle that the overwhelming, in fact, the entire majority -- the entire Republican caucus, I assume, in both the House and the Senate supports, which is that we ought to extend tax cuts for the middle class.
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This sense of having a mandate encouraged Morales to exercise power based on the simple principle of majority rule.
"The cause of reform, so long fought for, cannot afford to have the fundamentally fair and historic principle of majority voting cast aside, " the historians write.
But at the end of the dialogue, if we will not reach an agreement, we must agree on the one most important principle -- that the majority will decide, a democratic majority, and everybody, everybody, will respect it.
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The fact of the matter is Americans are rightfully upset by the dysfunction they see in Washington when you have, in particular, one House of Congress and one party within that House of Congress adamantly refusing to go along with a principle that is endorsed by a vast majority of the American people, including a majority of Republicans out in the country.
But Peter Mandelson told the House of Commons on Wednesday that he had based his decision on the principle of consent and the wishes of the majority enshrined in the Good Friday Agreement.
One example might be accepting that it would be wrong in principle to impose new financial regulations by a majority vote against the wishes of the country with the biggest financial-services industry in Europe.
The government still won the vote on the principle of its proposed reforms to Parliament, with a majority of 338 - but only after ministers ditched a vote to limit time for debating the bill.
Two of its central historical planks were bolted into the Good Friday agreement: the principle that Ulster cannot be forced into a united Ireland without the consent of the majority of its people, and the renunciation of Ireland's constitutional claim to the north.
The Good Friday Agreement settled the dispute between London and Dublin about sovereignty, with both governments and the major political parties recognising the "principle of consent", namely that it's up to the will of the majority voting in a referendum whether Northern Ireland remains in the UK or becomes part of Ireland.
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