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Definition of Majority rule

1. Noun. The doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group.

Definition of Majority rule

1. Noun. A decision rule whereby the decisions of the numerical majority of a group will bind on the whole group. ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Majority Rule

Literary usage of Majority rule

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1918)
"In order to sustain the majority rule it must be held that the maxim, "That is certain which can be made certain," is not applicable to cases of this ..."

2. Progressivism--and After by William English Walling (1914)
"CHAPTER VI DEMOCRACY VERSUS majority rule DEMOCRACY has two widely different senses. It either means the rule of the majority, or it means this and ..."

3. Government by All the People; Or: The Initiative, the Referendum, and the by Delos Franklin Wilcox (1912)
"The friends of majority rule retort by alleging that the government we now have is representative only in name, but that under majority rule government ..."

4. The Arena by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1906)
"Such superficial handling of important questions as is found in the chapter on Majority-Rule is extremely unfortunate in a time like the present and in a ..."

5. Cyclopedia of American Government by Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin, Albert Bushnell Hart (1914)
"majority rule, even in democratic countries, is in practice, however, hedged abo:it by many limitations. The principle of relative or absolute majority rule ..."

6. From Harrison to Harding: A Personal Narrative, Covering a Third of a by Arthur Wallace Dunn (1922)
"... Party Strife Over Contested Election Cases—Democrats Try Absent Treatment—Majority Rule Established—Reed on the " Tyranny of the Minority. ..."

7. Financing an Enterprise by Hugh Ronald Conyngton (1921)
"majority rule PROTECTION or MINORITY A disquieting feature of the corporate form of organization is the fact of majority rule—that the interests of the ..."

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