Word: sanctions
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Gradually the notion of majority rule developed, and got its philosophical sanction from John Locke, who greatly influenced the founding fathers. Alexander Hamilton warned that if "a pertinacious minority can control the opinion of a majority ... the sense of the smaller number will overrule that of the greater." Though Thomas Jefferson could proclaim in his first Inaugural Address that "the minority possess their equal rights," he called it a "sacred principle" that "the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail." That being so, what is so equal about minority rights...
...presidency. The significance of the court's opinion, says Columbia University Law Professor Abraham Sofaer, lies in its assertion that "Executive privilege does not mean Executive whim. The President does not have absolute discretion and is subject to the rules of law." Though the court gave theoretical sanction to Executive privilege, it also created a precedent for overriding the President's authority to invoke it. That precedent may yet turn out to be a crucial one in Nixon's impeachment...
...previously secret affidavit, John Ehrlichman swore before the U.S. district court that Nixon had given after-the-fact sanction of the Sept. 3, 1971, burglary of Dr. Fielding's office. After the break-in became known, the President publicly said that had he known about it beforehand, he "would have disapproved." Yet in a meeting with Ehrlichman on April 18, 1973, Nixon said that it had been "fully justified by the circumstances...
...Council of Ministers. Routine matters are handled by the Cabinet and the 186-man Parliament, while all issues affecting Syria's security are referred to the 21-member Baath Party High Command, acting as a court of appeal. But it is the army that wields the final sanction, and during the disengagement discussions with Israel, Assad made sure that his Defense Minister, Major General Mustafa Tlas, and other senior military officers were intimately involved...
...exhibition, we hoped to indirectly encourage the University to participate to a greater extent in such exhibitions. And, quite apart from the quality of the individual works, the exhibition was interesting. It was well installed, with sufficent diversity to suggest that the visual arts, despite a lack of University sanction, continue to be of significance to a broad spectrum of people in the undergraduate community...