If Mr. Geoghegan truly wants to preserve majority rule, he should protest its most flagrant abuse rather than rules, whatever their infirmities, that have been used in their current form by both political parties for 35 years.
But because their votes were essential to preserving the majority -- over the dissenting votes of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas -- the qualifications that Justices Breyer and O'Connor added to the majority opinion took on extra significance for future cases.
It couldn't have had anything to do with election-year worries about preserving their majority, could it?
"Of course a couple of months later, we ended up not only preserving our majority but picking up seats".
"The residential clusters are tightly packed and integrated into the contours of the landscape, preserving the majority of its site as virgin terrain," it read.
For instance, the Senate Republicans -- always concerned about preserving their majority in a state where Democrats outnumber Republicans -- agreed in the last election cycle to several proposals, among them handgun controls and a hate-crimes law.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won big in Delhi's municipal elections on Sunday, preserving their majority in the north and east corporations while leading in the South to capture a total of 138 seats of the 272 seats.
The judges said GOP leaders had drawn districts for the Legislature after the last census with the aim of preserving their majority for a decade almost regardless of what voters had to say.
Most likely, the resulting proteins display only a minor loss of their C-terminal portion, preserving the majority of functional domains and keeping a residual activity.
Their only certainty at the traditional Labor Day marker of the campaign's homestretch: preserving Democratic majorities through these economic travails, if possible at all, will be very hard work.
