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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
Harper Lee

Meaning of "majority rule" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MAJORITY RULE

majority rule  [məˈdʒɒrɪtɪ ruːl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MAJORITY RULE

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Majority rule is a noun.
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WHAT DOES MAJORITY RULE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Majority rule

Majority rule is a decision rule that selects alternatives which have a majority, that is, more than half the votes. It is the binary decision rule used most often in influential decision-making bodies, including the legislatures of democratic nations. Some scholars have recommended against the use of majority rule, at least under certain circumstances, due to an ostensible trade-off between the benefits of majority rule and other values important to a democratic society. Most famously, it has been argued that majority rule might lead to a "tyranny of the majority," so the use of supermajoritarian rules and constitutional limits on government power has been recommended to mitigate these effects. Recently some voting theorists have argued that majority rule is the rule that best protects minorities.

Definition of majority rule in the English dictionary

The definition of majority rule in the dictionary is the principle that decisions supported by more than half the people in a group have effect upon all the people in that group.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MAJORITY RULE


brool
bruːl
cerule
ˈsiːruːl
chondrule
ˈkɒndruːl
crool
kruːl
curule
ˈkjʊəruːl
drool
druːl
ferrule
ˈfɛruːl
ferule
ˈfɛruːl
glomerule
ˈɡlɒməˌruːl
jarool
dʒəˈruːl
misrule
ˌmɪsˈruːl
overrule
ˌəʊvəˈruːl
rule
ruːl
spherule
ˈsfɛruːl
sporule
ˈspɒruːl
subrule
ˈsʌbˌruːl
work-rule
ˈwɜːkˌruːl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MAJORITY RULE

major term
major-domo
major-generalcy
major-generalship
majorat
Majorca
Majorcan
majorette
majoritarian
majoritarianism
majorities
majority
majority carrier
majority decision
majority opinion
majority shareholding
majority verdict
majorly
majors
majorship

WORDS THAT END LIKE MAJORITY RULE

as a rule
board rule
chain rule
direct rule
foot rule
gag rule
global rule
golden rule
ground rule
home rule
house rule
martial rule
mob rule
phase rule
phrase-structure rule
rewrite rule
slide rule
the rule
trapezoid rule
unit rule
work-to-rule

Synonyms and antonyms of majority rule in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «majority rule» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MAJORITY RULE

Find out the translation of majority rule to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of majority rule from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «majority rule» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

多数人统治
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

gobierno de la mayoría
570 millions of speakers

English

majority rule
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बहुमत नियम
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

حكم الأغلبية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

правление большинства
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

regra da maioria
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অধিকাংশ নিয়ম
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

règle de la majorité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Peraturan majoriti
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Mehrheitsregierung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

多数決原理
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

대부분의 규칙
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Mayoritas aturan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nguyên tắc đa số
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பெரும்பான்மை ஆட்சி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बहुसंख्य नियम
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

çoğunluk kuralı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

regola della maggioranza
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

rządy większości
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

правління більшості
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

regulă majoritate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κανόνα της πλειοψηφίας
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

meerderheidsregering
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

majoritetsstyre
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

flertallsstyre
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of majority rule

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MAJORITY RULE»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MAJORITY RULE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about majority rule

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7 QUOTES WITH «MAJORITY RULE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word majority rule.
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Dave Brat
The Left likes to think of itself as the bulwark of progressive liberal individualism, and yet it seeks to progressively coerce others to fund every social program under the sun via majority rule.
2
Kent Conrad
America was founded on majority rule, not supermajority rule. Somehow, over the years, this has morphed into supermajority rule, and that changes things.
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Jefferson Davis
Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.
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Larry Flynt
Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.
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Harper Lee
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
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Harper Lee
Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
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Robert W. Welch, Jr.
In the Constitution of the American Republic there was a deliberate and very extensive and emphatic division of governmental power for the very purpose of preventing unbridled majority rule.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MAJORITY RULE»

Discover the use of majority rule in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to majority rule and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Minority Rights, Majority Rule: Partisanship and the ...
Minority Rights, Majority Rule seeks to explain why majority parties have consistently been so powerful in the U.S. House of Representatives while minorities often prevail in the Senate.
Sarah A. Binder, 1997
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Minority Government and Majority Rule
Examines minority governments to show they are not exceptional or unstable.
Kaare Strom, 1990
3
Majority Rule Or Minority Will: Adherence to Precedent on ...
Examines the influence of precedent on the behavior of the US Supreme Court justices.
Harold J. Spaeth, Jeffrey A. Segal, 2001
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Majority Rule and the Judiciary: An Examination of Current ...
Ransom's book is grounded in the Progressive movement's belief that courts are a barrier to positive social change.
William L. Ransom, 2007
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Majority rule versus consensus:
Majority Rule versus Consensus is a provocative work that sheds new light on the promise and limitations of democracy, showing that, despite the failure of Calhoun's remedy, his diagnosis of the potential injustice of majority rule must be ...
James H. Read, 2009
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Thinking about democracy: power sharing and majority rule in ...
This volume will be of enormous interest to all students and scholars of democracy and comparative politics, and politics and international relations in general.
Arend Lijphart, 2008
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Majority Rule: Direct Democracy and Minority Rights
These works are packaged and produced by BiblioLabs under license by ProQuest UMI.
Daniel C. Lewis, David A Baillie, 2011
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The Founders, the Constitution, and Public Administration: A ...
MAJORITY RULE Among the most important constitutional rules that check the discretionary power of government officials are, of course, those providing for an electoral process based on majority rule. However, while important, there is good  ...
Michael W. Spicer, 1995
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Majority Rule in Combination with Representative Government ...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
George Henry Shibley, 2010
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Understanding American Government
Of course, this entails a government by the many rather than by the few ( aristocracy or oligarchy or theocracy) or by just one (monarchy or dictatorship). expectations are not fulfilled, the minority is less likely to accept majority rule and to ...
Susan Welch, John Gruhl, John Comer, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MAJORITY RULE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term majority rule is used in the context of the following news items.
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Ex-Intel Chief: Iran Deal Good for Israel - The Daily Beast
While majority rule on the Commission means that the U.S. and its European allies don't need Russia and China to enforce inspections, the ... «Daily Beast, Jul 15»
2
State employees await Michigan Supreme Court decisions
Decisions require majority rule, so a 2-2 vote would stall any changes. However, one Granholm appointee, independent commission Chairman ... «Detroit Free Press, Jul 15»
3
Columnist misleads on Constitution, marriage ruling - St. Cloud Times
... an independent judiciary that would not be subject to outside political pressure thus balancing majority rule while protecting minority rights. «St. Cloud Times, Jul 15»
4
Mulcair launches tour of Ontario on defensive about policy on Quebec
... a bare majority would be necessary, at one point noting that “Canadians have never accepted that ours is a system of simple majority rule.”. «News Talk 610 CKTB, Jul 15»
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Supplementary Data - American Journal of Botany
Appendix S9 - Additional phylogenetic results including (a) substitution models for each DNA region, majority rule consensus trees obtained in ... «Am J Botany, Jul 15»
6
2013 probes not a coup, says former investigation committee MP
Now that the AK Party lost its majority rule over the country in the elections in June, Aksünger says the case needs to be reopened and adds ... «BGN NEWS, Jul 15»
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A Year In Alþingi: Two MPs, Birgitta Jónsdóttir And Vigdís …
Instead of actually talking about the proposals presented before parliament, where the coalition government has a majority rule, they've abused ... «Reykjavík Grapevine, Jul 15»
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Why is the war on the Confederacy still going on today?
By insisting that the Northern majority rule, moreover, the Republicans persistently identified the South as a minority that was inherently ... «Personal Liberty Digest, Jul 15»
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'Majority rule' could snag any deal on state budget | Reading Eagle …
Simply put, the "majority-of-the-majority" rule means legislation cannot get a floor vote unless most Republican lawmakers support it. And many ... «Reading Eagle, Jul 15»
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JIMMY SMOTHERS: Things aren't like they used to be
Freedom was a combination of individual beliefs and majority rule. That was before college football coaches Bear Bryant and Shug Jordan ... «Gadsden Times, Jul 15»

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