With guaranteed representation, they argue, more immigrants would be allowed to stay.
In contrast, he said, the Western model of government guarantees representation only to candidates who are chosen by the majority.
They see guaranteed representation in Brussels as the best safeguard against an EU run by (and for) its biggest members.
Noncentralization is also strengthened by giving the constituent polities guaranteed representation in the national legislature and often by giving them a guaranteed role in the national political process.
Among the detainees not guaranteed representation are children, the mentally disabled, victims of sex trafficking, refugees, torture survivors and legal permanent residents.
Alabama is nearly alone among the states, she wrote, in that it "does not guarantee representation to indigent capital defendants in post-conviction proceedings".
But they are also alarmed by efforts to increase indigenous power, like items to guarantee representation of Indians in Congress or to allow Indians to mete out justice outside the judicial system.
Supporters' Direct has meanwhile reacted positively to Labour's proposals, and to an interview with the shadow sports minister, Hugh Robertson, in which he also talks about the need for supporters to be guaranteed representation in clubs.
In contrast, elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly and to the European Parliament are conducted by the single-transferable-vote formula, a form of proportional representation that virtually guarantees representation for the various sectarian parties.
"Nearly alone among the states, Alabama does not guarantee representation to indigent capital defendants in post-conviction proceedings," Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote for a seven-justice majority in Maples v. Thomas.
