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	Majoritarianism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Majoritarianism is a political philosophy or agenda which asserts that a majority (sometimes categorized by religion, language or some other identifying factor) of the population is entitled to a certain degree of primacy in society, and has the right to make decisions that affect the society.
		Majoritarianism is sometimes pejoratively called ochlocracy (commonly stated as mob rule) or tyranny of the majority by its opponents.
		Majoritarianism is often referred to as majority rule, but which may be referring to a majority class ruling over a minority class, while not referring to the decision process called the majority rule.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Majoritarianism (803 words)

	Majoritarianism (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Under a majoritarian political structure the majority has a single restriction: it is not allowed to exclude any minority from future participation in the democratic process.
		Majoritarianism is sometimes pejoratively called ochlocracy (commonly stated as mob rule) or tyranny of the majority.
		Some militant adherents of majoritarianism can be found in the Ku Klux Klan, or in some neo-Nazi groups, which, ironically, are actually small minorities themselves—and thus it is unlikely their agenda could ever be implemented in a majoritarian system.
	majoritarianism.iqnaut.net.cob-web.org:8888 (660 words)

	Majoritarianism
		The democrat who has no other fundamental principles than the majoritarian one is the person who, asked to choose between a benevolent despotism and the tyranny of some majority, is obliged to choose the latter.
		Majoritarianism is justified in the context of a search for truth, truth concerning the right way to order a society's affairs.
		In relation to Rousseau's justification of majoritarianism, what is especially interesting about Condorcet's probabilistic justification is that the necessary conditions Condorcet specifies for majority votes to yield judgements or verdicts which are most probably correct parallel Rousseau's own account of the features of an uncorrupted sovereign body.
	www.selectedworks.co.uk /majoritarianism.html (2387 words)

	WLUML: News and Views
		As the Hindus were in majority the Hindu communal leaders began to exploit majoritarian sentiments for creating Hindu Rashtra and a section of the Muslim leaders began to invoke minoritism and that led to two-nation theory.
		Not only that democracy has no place for majoritarianism but, on the contrary, a true democracy ensures additional rights to religious and linguistic minorities to protect their religious and cultural traditions.
		However, the communal and majoritarian forces call enactment of such provisions in the constitutions as ‘appeasement’ of minorities and try to incite religious feelings of the majority community.
	www.wluml.org /english/newsfulltxt.shtml?cmd[157]=x-157-80962 (1520 words)

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		Majoritarianism, as I argued in _Tom Paine Maru_, rests on two false assumptions and a cynical threat.
		Understanding that majoritarianism guarantees only dissatisfaction, I sat down to devise a new structure for the LP and wrote another letter to as many of its leaders as I could.
		Today, thanks to its majoritarian structure, a diminished LP is reduced to running a clone of Pat Robertson for president.
	keithlynch.net /lns/tod (3012 words)

	Majoritarianism (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		'''Majoritarianism''' (often also called majority rule) is a political philosophy or agenda which asserts that a majority (sometimes categorized by religion, language or some other identifying factor) of the population is entitled to a certain degree of primacy in society, and has the right to make decisions that affect the society.
		Majoritarian liberals believe that a sufficient number of individuals are concerned that they themselves could at times be in the minority, so that the majority would foster a general culture of tolerance for minorities.
		It is a common practice by the opponents of majoritarianism to equate or confuse (sometimes on purpose) strict majoritarianism with the loose version, thus accusing the strict majoritarianism of having the disadvantages that only the loose version can have, and vice versa.
	majoritarianism.kiwiki.homeip.net.cob-web.org:8888 (748 words)

	Construction Time (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The House of Representatives has always been a majoritarian body, of course, but the tide seems to be changing on all three other bodies at the Federal level: the Supreme Court, the Presidency, and the Senate.
		The majoritarianism of the Supreme Court was shown in the 2000 decision of Bush v.
		It may seem odd to refer to majoritarianism in connection with the Presidency, since the Chief Executive is a single person, always (after Washington, anyway) from a specific party and has legal authority over the rest of his administration.
	www.d.umn.edu /~schilton/Articles/TopicalEssay.Majoritarianism.html (369 words)

	The Hindu : Majoritarianism, big challenge to democracy, says Chidambaram
		Majoritarianism, which asserted the might of the majority, would destroy society.
		Pandian, CPI leader, however, struck an optimistic tone, asserting that the democratic roots were ``strong and deep'' in India.
		The proof was that a majority of the Hindus had not fallen prey to the majoritarian frenzy whipped up by fundamentalist forces.
	www.hindu.com /2003/09/18/stories/2003091809970400.htm (300 words)

	Reason Magazine - Hit & Run > George Will's Good Questions for Roberts
		Majoritarianism describes established or unestablished law, and the notion of checking majoritarianism implies that there is some other appropriate standard than what a majorty wants or is used to.
		Checking majoritarianism is applying a standard other than the historical, perhaps a conceptual conformity with constitutional dictates, for guidance.
		Another point to keep in mind is that in addition to the dozen or so high profile issues that the Court faces every year, most of their time is spent on things far more technical and mundane than checking majoritarianism or debating strict construction vs. evolving standards or whatever.
	www.reason.com /blog/show/110867.html (1307 words)

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		What I mean by 'minimum majoritarianism' is that that majoritarian voting laws, when they exist by themselves--only set up a context where it is important to systemically appeal to 50% of the voting populace--as a strategic maximum.
		A minimum majoritarianism occcurs when there are a lack of party competition, a lack of fusion laws, etc. Instead of the electorate that is appealed to, in minimum majoritarianism contexts, the maximum to appeal to is only seen as 50%, as you have demonstrated above.
		To say that the principle is clouded because the constitutional provision for electors is selected by the state missed that this is a state level request, making it less cloudy--which only leaves your phrase "the context of presidential politics" as your caveat, since you said that in principle you support proportional representation.
	www.ssc.wisc.edu /~mwhitake/biostate/bioregion9.html (1011 words)

	Majoritarianism vs. Equality at The Republic of T.
		Majoritarianism vs. Equality at The Republic of T. The Republic of T. Black.
		What’s unsaid and unquestioned in all of the arguments above is the increasing conservative push for majoritarianism.
		Only the current crop of Republicans and religious conservatives go a step further than traditional majoritarianism, by seeking to bar a future majority from disagreeing with the (perceived) current majority.
	www.republicoft.com /2006/07/05/majoritarianism-vs-equality (1311 words)

	Majoritarianism, A Cause Of Conflic
		Either the decision is taken in consensus, by which is implied a verbal consensus; or it is taken by a (simple, weighted, qualified or consociational) majority vote.
		This suggests, of course, that we westerners took a majoritarian form of democracy to be not just the best but the only true interpretation.
		A horrible interpretation of majority rule was used by the Interahamwe as a 'justification' for their genocide which they initiated with the slogan "rubanda nyamwinshi", "the majority people".
	www.deborda.org /publications/majoritarianism.shtml (5061 words)

	In the Agora: Jaffa on Conservative Majoritarianism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		When Douglas declared that he didn't care whether slavery was voted up or voted down, that he cared only for the right of the people to decide, he gave expression to a concept of democracy that identified majority rule with indifference to the morality of the outcome of majority rule.
		In particular, I find his views on gay rights to be every bit as vile as the views of those he criticizes in the essay under discussion, and entirely inconsistent with his otherwise passionate defense of liberty.
		But on the subject of the majoritarianism so common among conservatives today, and the obvious relativism at its core, I think he he is quite correct.
	www.intheagora.com /archives/2005/05/jaffa_on_conser.html (4983 words)

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		(2) proportional representation with majoritarian allotment clause that
		for the proportional representation with majoritarian allotment for the
		majoritarianism itself is a huge contradiction in terms because it leads to
	www.ssc.wisc.edu /~mwhitake/biostate/bioregion10.html (2736 words)

	The Communitarian Network
		This article argues that some of the points that have long been debated between libertarians and communitarians, the two sides are meeting mid way, narrowing if not "settling" these points.[1] Recognizing this progress allows focusing on the "remaining" issues that contain some rather challenging and much less discussed issues.
		I argue that the relationship between the individual and the community is more nuanced than the simple opposition of individual vs. the overarching collectives generally posited by libertarians.
		Note that the concern is not that some local goon or national tyrant would take over, but that ordinary citizens would instruct their duly-elected city council or school board to institute policies that violated basic rights.
	www.gwu.edu /~ccps/etzioni/A240.html (4445 words)

	SSRN-Constitutionalizing Democracy in Fractured Societies by Samuel Issacharoff
		This article explores the tension between constitutionalism and democratic majoritarianism in the context of emerging democracies characterized by deep ethnic or religious fractures.
		For many years, the political science orthodoxy prescribed a strategy of "consociationalism" that settled power-sharing arrangements as a bargain between political elites and rendered politics to a perpetual recognition of the primacy of ethnic or religious divides.
		Rather than turn to consociationalism to constrain the risk of unbridled majoritarianism and the threat of communal war, these countries have by and large employed a form of strong constitutional authority, typically enforced by an independent constitutional court, to prevent democratic politics from consuming itself.
	papers.ssrn.com /sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=547425 (397 words)

	Calblog: Barnett and Democratic Majoritarianism
		Barnett's desired implementation of his interpretation of the Ninth Amendment, I note my agreement with him on the founders view of democratic majoritarianism.
		Madison rejects the idea that an independent authority should reside to protect the rights of the minority.
		In any event the difference ought to be an irreconcilable variance.
	www.calblog.com /archives/003630.html (580 words)

	PrawfsBlawg: Reconsidering "Judicial Activism"
		The statute in Dickerson was enacted only a couple of years after Miranda, but it took decades for the statute for it to reach the Court because DOJ was mostly uninterested in pressing the issue and later Congresses were not interested in forcing it to.
		Even thornier problems arise when considering something like Raich, where the Court allegedly deferred to the majoritarian branch by deciding that it was "necessary" for the CSA to function that California's marijuana scheme be struck down.
		In my view, the committed majoritarian upholds such a statute (absent a damn good constitutional argument, which may or may not have been present in Griswold, but which was certainly not present in Dickerson according to Rehnquist).
	prawfsblawg.blogs.com /prawfsblawg/2005/07/reconsidering_j.html (4190 words)

	SSRN-Law, Rules, and Presidential Selection by Samuel Issacharoff
		This Article examines the rather commonplace departures from strict majoritarian rule in the Constitution, and concludes that the distortions from majoritarian preferences created by the Electoral College are actually much smaller in scope than those created by the U.S. Senate, the Article V amendment process and, to some extent, the House of Representatives.
		The Article then explores the controversies surrounding the presidential elections of 1800 and 1876 to argue that there are nonetheless important constitutional principles at stake in the operation of the Electoral College, namely in the manner in which Congress dictates rules for the settlement of disputes arising from presidential elections.
		This practice, which is not mandated by the Constitution, could be challenged, not on the grounds that it is inconsistent with majoritarianism, but rather on the grounds that it gives the majority too much power - an argument that finds much stronger support in our constitutional jurisprudence.
	papers.ssrn.com /sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=382640 (379 words)

	John Derbyshire on majorities and minorities on National Review Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A word she used a lot, I noticed, was "majoritarianism." She had, in fact, a minor obsession on this point.
		We must beware, she used to warn me, of the peril of majoritarianism.
		Her favorite short story, which she even got me to read, was that dopey one by that woman writer whose name I forget, about the village where once a year they pick someone by lot and stone him to death.
	www.nationalreview.com /derbyshire/derbyshire012902.shtml (1154 words)

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		From which it follows that this understanding of peace is opposed to separatism or exclusivism or majoritarianism in any form.
		That, in short, Sinhalese majoritarianism can continue to be structurally unchecked in the south – and we could still have peace in the whole country.
		But I bow down in the face of its commitment, its conviction, its immense courage; and its intellectual and ethical persuasion: that peace cannot and should not be understood from a majoritarian, or elitist, perspective.
	www.lines-magazine.org /Art_Aug03/Quadri.htm (3670 words)

	Political Institutions in New Democracies: (Not so) Hidden Majoritarianism in Post-apartheid South Africa
		We show that a distinction is evident in the formal institutional sense and that African new democracies differ (somewhat) if classified institutionally as either majoritarian or consensual.
		However, looking more closely to South Africa as an example of a consensus type of democracy, we also argue that the distribution of power, embedded in both the wider informal practices and the nature of the party system, significantly affects the way this formally consensual democracy works in practice.
		On this basis, we argue that (a) the consensual appearance of democracy on the basis of formal institutional criteria may be misleading; and (b) that because the party system affects the meaning of the other institutional criteria, the criteria used to distinguish between a majoritarian and consensus democracy should be assigned a relative weight.
	www.palgrave-journals.com /ap/journal/v39/n3/abs/5500063a.html (240 words)

	From majoritarianism to electoral terrorism, The Milli Gazette, Vol. 2 No. 23
		From majoritarianism to electoral terrorism, The Milli Gazette, Vol.
		Lucknow: After religious majoritarianism BJP is now resorting to electoral terrorism in its bid to again capture power in the crucial state of UP which will ensure the stability of the Union government headed by Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
		The BJP is desperate and jittery with the looming defeat in UP assembly elections and its aftermath and therefore, is leaving no stone unturned to divert the tide in its favour.
	www.milligazette.com /Archives/01122001/11.htm (825 words)

	Opinion - George F. Will: Don't mess with Electoral College - sacbee.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The second argument for the multistate compact is: The possibility of the winner of the popular vote losing the electoral vote contest violates the value that trumps all others -- majoritarianism.
		Never mind that in 42 of the 46 elections since 1824 for which we have popular vote totals, that did not happen.
		Which suggests that the assault on the electoral vote system is driven by simplistic majoritarianism, which would shatter the two-party system that is conducive to temperate politics.
	www.sacbee.com /110/story/37887.html (626 words)

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