Sentence examples for majority violated from inspiring English sources

The recent ones in Venezuela and Pakistan (supported, please note, by a majority) violated constitutions but constitutions whose spirit had been violated for decades by the wealthy and well-connected elites who centralized power and clung to it.

For example, in the US feminist lawyers argued successfully that statutes treating women differently for purposes such as estate administration or age of majority violated constitutional equal protection, following the initial lead of Ruth Bader Ginsburg as director of the ACLU Women's Rights Project in Reed v. Reed (404 U.S. 71 (1971)).

It turns out that the majority violates most of the postulates.

For Lincoln, however, the doctrine of unlimited majority rule violated the principle of constitutional government.

The dissent, written by Justice Antonin Scalia, said the majority view violated the notion that legislatures representing voters should be able to make choices about issues of morality.

State laws denying marriage to same-sex couples, the majority held, violated the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee that "[n]o State shall... deprive any person of... liberty without due process of law; nor deny to any person... the equal protection of the laws".

In dissent, Justice Antonin Scalia criticized the majority for violating the command of the 1871 law.

"[T]o impose the harshest of punishments on an intellectually disabled person," Justice Anthony Kennedy (pictured) wrote in the majority opinion, "violates his or her inherent dignity as a human being .The result in Hall v Florida was no surprise.

The Democrats are invoking a 1986 Supreme Court decision that held that a partisan gerrymander so severe as to thwart majority will violates the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection.

In seeking to establish a lasting conservative majority, Mr. Rove violated one of the central tenets of modern conservative ideology: the idea that government cannot effectively refashion American society.

The majority said the law violated the First Amendment rights of candidates who raise private money.