| Still, there is a distinction to be made between majority rule and majoritarianism. |
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| As in so many other areas, majoritarianism and limited government conflict. |
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| It is faithfulness to a complex tradition that forestalls being overtaken by majoritarianism or convention. |
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| This majoritarianism has combined with other features to provide Britain with responsible party government. |
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| First, the dominant principle of American democracy is not unconstrained majoritarianism. |
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| Nor is it simply the decline of deference to elite rule and the rise of individualism, majoritarianism, and equalitarianism. |
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| The lines between majoritarianism, nationalism, and fascism have been defiantly blurred, and quite logically. |
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| The tyranny of majoritarianism had already held them in its stranglehold ever since the dawn of freedom. |
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| Two tendencies correspond to this: the implementation of populist majoritarianism and growing manipulation by the elite. |
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| Who says he didn't? If this fragmentation is everywhere enfeebling to governments, in Britain with its traditional two-party system, majoritarianism and, at the apex, all-powerful prime minister the effect is traumatic. |
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| But it was despotic kings and functionless aristocrats more functionless in France than in Britain who thwarted the interests and ambitions of the middle class, which turned, therefore, to the principle of majoritarianism. |
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| The absence of a strong opposition will allow the ruling party to consolidate its authoritarian majoritarianism. |
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| The virus of Hindu majoritarianism has entered the bloodstream of the Indian nation. |
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| What distinguished democracy from majoritarianism was the Constitution,'' Justice Alam had said. |
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| When that mentality prevails, constitutional democracy, limited government, and the spontaneous market order will give way to crude majoritarianism and market socialism. |
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| Of course, it is easy to envision contexts in which such an outcome is normatively either appealing or appalling, but the same is also true of pure majoritarianism. |
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| On the other hand, rampant majoritarianism means that 51 percent can indeed confiscate the wealth of all 49 percent, which is what you get under the New Deal. |
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| According to the AU brief, the policy fosters religious majoritarianism and requires students to participate in religious worship against their will. |
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