Another useful feature of strict supermajority rules is that they promote better decision-making. If a constitution can only be amended by a strict majority rule, as in the case of the U.S. Constitution, the constitutional provisions should take a long time. This will often make it difficult to predict how they will work with people in the future. This means that the provisions will be adopted behind a limited veil of ignorance, which will result in people focusing on the public interest and not on their limited benefit. For example, if it is not clear which party will control the presidency in the future, it is a good idea to decide which powers the president should not have in office if it is predicted that the party will control the function, but on the presidential powers that will promote the public interest. Since it is often not known (but not always, as in the case of race) which party or group will be in the majority, there will be a strong incentive to include the protection of minorities and individual rights. The French were dissatisfied with the previous one; French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau did not appreciate the British taking unilateral decisions on such an important issue. Lloyd George replied that the French had concluded a similar short-term ceasefire in the Salonika ceasefire, negotiated by General of Esperey, and that Britain (and Tsarist Russia) had deployed the vast majority of troops for the campaign against the Ottoman Empire. The French agreed to accept the case as closed. However, educated Ottoman opinion had misleading positive impressions about the seriousness of the ceasefire conditions. They believed that their conditions were much more lenient than they actually were, a source of discontent later that it appeared that the Allies had violated the terms offered during the Turkish War of Independence.
[2] 28 The sixth and seventh articles of the Treaty of Gyumri (December 2, 1920), which ended the Turkish-Armenian war, focused on refugees displaced during the First World War. The text of the treaty is available at www.ttk.gov.tr/index.php?Page=Sayfa&No=252.
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