Instead, integration guarantees autonomy (self-government) by permitting minorities to perpetuate their unique characteristics.
Since MOM voting permits minority stockholders to register their opinions as to the adequacy of the offered price without the pressure to tender, the vote can be trusted to reflect stockholder opinion free from the distorting effects of the coercion inherent in a tender offer.
But, more fundamentally, this failure shows the peril of the Senate continuing to permit minority rule to govern its every move.
In recent years, there has been a gradual relaxation of China's family planning laws, which already permitted ethnic minority families and rural couples whose firstborn was a girl to have more than one child.
I thank Nathaniel Frank for his persuasive argument to permit sexual minorities in the armed forces ("Ready, Willing, Disqualified," Op-Ed, Dec. 16).
The Senate will remain dysfunctional as long as its rules permit a minority of senators to thwart the will of the majority.
Nick Clegg could permit a minority Tory government to form because it has won the most seats and the highest share of the popular vote.
The single most important reason the Senate is so dysfunctional is that its rules of "endless debate" permit a minority of 41 of its 100 members to filibuster, which thwarts the will of the majority and prevents important legislation from coming to an up-or-down vote.
This figure also shows that SBA+ has more collision slots than SBA0 does since it permits a minority of arriving tags to collide with staying tags.
There is nothing in the United States Constitution that permits a minority to frustrate the will of the majority.
Filibusters were designed to permit the minority to demand unlimited debate and force the majority to compromise.
