As the recent experience of Iraq proves, elections in a country where the rights and responsibilities of secular and democratic citizenship are largely unknown do little more than crudely assert the majority's right to rule.
Anthony Lewis (column, May 6) asserts, "The overwhelming majority of liberal Americans supported the West's staunch and successful resistance to Soviet Communism, and look back at the policy with pride".
Kimura's neutral theory asserts that the majority of DNA sequence polymorphisms observed within a species has no effect on the fitness, because the majority of harmful mutations are eliminated from the population by negative selection.
The study asserted "the overwhelming majority" of oil flowing to refineries in the Gulf Coast would be refined and consumed in the U.S., even after XL is built -- which is true but irrelevant.
He asserted that the majority of club presidents were behind him.
China has sought to highlight the threat from Uighur separatists while asserting that the majority of Xinjiang's 8.3 million Uighurs are peaceful.
"The mayor's job is fundamentally a nonpartisan job," he asserted, adding, "The majority party always protects the insiders, the party faithful, the loyalists.
"It is premature and unwise to assert, as the majority essentially does, that the thousands of same-sex weddings performed in San Francisco were empty and meaningless ceremonies in the eyes of the law," Justice Kennard wrote.
Justice David H. Souter is no doubt correct in asserting that the majority decision in Mitchell v. Helms represents a break with the Supreme Court's precedents, but more important, the decision makes clear that the Establishment Clause is simply too weak to preserve our system of public education.
Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould's (Eldredge 1971; Eldredge and Gould 1972) theory of Punctuated Equilibria questioned Darwin's gradualistic account of evolution, asserting that the majority of evolutionary change occurs at or around the time of speciation.
