The 10 non-Old Firm SPL clubs have long been unhappy with the distribution of income as it favours Rangers and Celtic and also dislike an 11-1 majorequirementement on major issues that they believe allows those two clubs to dictate change.
In the end, Tuesday's vote turned on the two-thirds majority requirement for each house of the synod.
Even if Senator Clinton does not remember the constitutional majority requirement in Illinois, one of her advisers might have explained it to her.
Knowing that the clean vote would not pass — and imposing a two-thirds majority requirement to ensure its failure — House Republicans gave the Democrats what they requested.
With almost two-thirds of the public approving of the job President Obama is doing, surely the timing is optimal for doing away with the 60-vote majority requirement.
However to address any potential amendments suggested by the second chamber, a new computerised counting system involving tablet devices will be deployed to calculate the new "double majority" requirement.
A dad and two mums Save the children Capital in the 21st century Wheel ambition Ed McMiliband No junk The demand side A sure hand at the wheel ReprintsSome fret that this "double majority" requirement, to which the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats will commit themselves in their manifestos for the general election in May, could split the United Kingdom.
Both votes fell short of the Constitutional two-thirds majority requirement to convict and remove an officeholder.
In an article weighing the fairness of the majority requirement in the primary races, Sean Trende aptly explained the downside of allowing a candidate to win by a plurality instead.
A majority requirement still in effect for popular election, he was elected by the state senate 29 4 over Bishop, although fractious Whigs demanded the replacement of Senator John Davis in exchange for their support for him.
In 2007 Benedict XVI rescinded John Paul II's change, which had been criticised as effectively abolishing the two-thirds majority requirement, as any majority would suffice to block the election until a simple majority was enough to elect the next pope, reaffirming the requirement of a two-thirds majority.
