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Definition of majoritarian in English: majoritarianadjective məˌdʒɒrɪˈtɛːrɪən-ˌjär- Governed by or believing in decision by a majority. the value of the Supreme Court as guardian of our liberties depends on its being distanced from ordinary majoritarian politics Example sentencesExamples - If the state's wisdom came from majoritarian prejudices, rather than the expertise of its technocrats, that would take us no further.
- Personally, I don't necessarily see such fragmentation as a bad thing, as it acts as a check on majoritarian power.
- He believes the Greens' values are majoritarian values that can reach across the political spectrum.
- It's an insane effort, smacking of majoritarian tyranny and aggressive, hidebound religious-exclusivist ethics.
- The democracy part implies that those areas of policy requiring collective decision making will reflect majoritarian preferences.
- The social transition has gone wrong: it is majoritarian absolutism.
- Given the reality of the Jim Crow South, however, majoritarian democracy could hardly have been said to be in play.
- The smoking ban is probably the most topical example of a decision that comes near to enforced majoritarian virtue.
- A final note: do not misinterpret this criticism as a defense of majoritarian democracy.
- How can majoritarian politics durably sustain policies harmful to majority interests?
- Justice is not to be equated with the law of the state or with simple majoritarian democracy.
- While they have their place, referenda suffer from being overly majoritarian and non-deliberative.
- American politicians are much more ‘democratic’ from a majoritarian point of view.
- If civil liberties are left to popular votes, they can similarly founder on the rocks of majoritarian advantage.
- Risk taking does not come easily to majoritarian institutions.
- Nice to see George spelling out that he's in favour of majoritarian rule rather than democracy.
- The unwritten guiding premise of governance today is majoritarian supremacy in the form of Hindu theocracy.
- Maybe I'm missing something, but isn't this at odds with his often stated majoritarian views?
- What they propose is not really strict construction, but majoritarian tyranny.
- In fact, academe's characteristic mode of governance magnifies majoritarian power.
noun məˌdʒɒrɪˈtɛːrɪən-ˌjär- A person who supports government by a majority. the hectoring tone of majoritarians towards heterodox opinions Example sentencesExamples - Sunstein insists there are four categories: majoritarians, perfectionists, minimalists and fundamentalists.
- Elections are rarely worth defending, and certainly are not the holy things modern-day majoritarians say they are.
- Ardent majoritarians may be scandalized by the fact that 51 senators from the least populous states, representing just 17 percent of the nation's population, could defeat a bill.
- Sunstein identifies Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes as a majoritarian but says there are no consistent majoritarians on today's Supreme Court.
- The majoritarian says, ‘If you want to know who should prevail in a conflict, take a vote.’
- He is not a moral majoritarian, but he isn't going to be extending the boundaries of personal morality either.
- It is a measure of Dworkin's success that moral majoritarians are now more likely to speak in neutral terms of ‘disempowerment’ and ‘oppression’ than in subjective terms such as ‘disgust’.
- Formal governmental censorship is rare and moral majoritarians have been relatively ineffective in the effort to criminalize rock concerts through the instrumentality of the courts.
- More and more Arab majoritarians are speaking up.
- It has been an important test of the Scottish parliament, from which it has emerged battered but intact after a challenge to its legitimacy from the moral majoritarians.
- But this libertarian view antagonizes both the diversitarians and the majoritarians more than anything, more even than they antagonize each other.
- We live in a world in which the people who want the government to be more involved in our lives include moral majoritarians and old New Dealers.
- The proposed solution to the ‘mess’ surrounding contemporary confirmation politics will not be appealing to majoritarians.
- Some liberals have been majoritarians with a limited concern for the rights of minorities; some conservatives have been valiant defenders of the liberties of conscience and expression.
- Here is T. R. Malthus's reading of Smith which makes it clear that contemporaries regarded Smith as a majoritarian.
- Liberals bash the Hindutva brigade in newspapers and TV channels, the majoritarians bash the rest of us.
- Third, I do not claim that all the Founders were ‘libertarians,’ but (as I discuss in my book but not in this paper) neither were they democratic majoritarians.
- Richard concludes his essay with an observation that I wish conservative democratic majoritarians (and their democratic compatriots on the left) would take to heart.
- Admittedly, the moral majoritarians were hard to love (as Richard John Neuhaus fully displays in his ambivalence toward them).
- Yet this argument runs into trouble once it is conceded that majoritarians of the earlier period were ‘mostly good Americans.’
Derivatives noun Still, there is a distinction to be made between majority rule and majoritarianism. Example sentencesExamples - The lines between majoritarianism, nationalism, and fascism have been defiantly blurred, and quite logically.
- The tyranny of majoritarianism had already held them in its stranglehold ever since the dawn of freedom.
- First, the dominant principle of American democracy is not unconstrained majoritarianism.
- This majoritarianism has combined with other features to provide Britain with responsible party government.
- It is faithfulness to a complex tradition that forestalls being overtaken by majoritarianism or convention.
Rhymes agrarian, antiquarian, apiarian, Aquarian, Arian, Aryan, authoritarian, barbarian, Bavarian, Bulgarian, Caesarean (US Cesarean), centenarian, communitarian, contrarian, Darien, disciplinarian, egalitarian, equalitarian, establishmentarian, fruitarian, Gibraltarian, grammarian, Hanoverian, humanitarian, Hungarian, latitudinarian, libertarian, librarian, millenarian, necessarian, necessitarian, nonagenarian, octogenarian, ovarian, Parian, parliamentarian, planarian, predestinarian, prelapsarian, proletarian, quadragenarian, quinquagenarian, quodlibetarian, Rastafarian, riparian, rosarian, Rotarian, sabbatarian, Sagittarian, sanitarian, Sauveterrian, sectarian, seminarian, septuagenarian, sexagenarian, topiarian, totalitarian, Trinitarian, ubiquitarian, Unitarian, utilitarian, valetudinarian, vegetarian, veterinarian, vulgarian Definition of majoritarian in US English: majoritarianadjective-ˌjär- Governed by or believing in decision by a majority. the value of the Supreme Court as guardian of our liberties depends on its being distanced from ordinary majoritarian politics Example sentencesExamples - Justice is not to be equated with the law of the state or with simple majoritarian democracy.
- How can majoritarian politics durably sustain policies harmful to majority interests?
- While they have their place, referenda suffer from being overly majoritarian and non-deliberative.
- Personally, I don't necessarily see such fragmentation as a bad thing, as it acts as a check on majoritarian power.
- If civil liberties are left to popular votes, they can similarly founder on the rocks of majoritarian advantage.
- Given the reality of the Jim Crow South, however, majoritarian democracy could hardly have been said to be in play.
- The unwritten guiding premise of governance today is majoritarian supremacy in the form of Hindu theocracy.
- He believes the Greens' values are majoritarian values that can reach across the political spectrum.
- The democracy part implies that those areas of policy requiring collective decision making will reflect majoritarian preferences.
- Maybe I'm missing something, but isn't this at odds with his often stated majoritarian views?
- The smoking ban is probably the most topical example of a decision that comes near to enforced majoritarian virtue.
- What they propose is not really strict construction, but majoritarian tyranny.
- In fact, academe's characteristic mode of governance magnifies majoritarian power.
- Risk taking does not come easily to majoritarian institutions.
- It's an insane effort, smacking of majoritarian tyranny and aggressive, hidebound religious-exclusivist ethics.
- American politicians are much more ‘democratic’ from a majoritarian point of view.
- A final note: do not misinterpret this criticism as a defense of majoritarian democracy.
- Nice to see George spelling out that he's in favour of majoritarian rule rather than democracy.
- If the state's wisdom came from majoritarian prejudices, rather than the expertise of its technocrats, that would take us no further.
- The social transition has gone wrong: it is majoritarian absolutism.
noun-ˌjär- A person who is governed by or believes in decision by a majority. the hectoring tone of majoritarians toward heterodox opinions Example sentencesExamples - Sunstein identifies Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes as a majoritarian but says there are no consistent majoritarians on today's Supreme Court.
- Here is T. R. Malthus's reading of Smith which makes it clear that contemporaries regarded Smith as a majoritarian.
- More and more Arab majoritarians are speaking up.
- It is a measure of Dworkin's success that moral majoritarians are now more likely to speak in neutral terms of ‘disempowerment’ and ‘oppression’ than in subjective terms such as ‘disgust’.
- Richard concludes his essay with an observation that I wish conservative democratic majoritarians (and their democratic compatriots on the left) would take to heart.
- Admittedly, the moral majoritarians were hard to love (as Richard John Neuhaus fully displays in his ambivalence toward them).
- But this libertarian view antagonizes both the diversitarians and the majoritarians more than anything, more even than they antagonize each other.
- The proposed solution to the ‘mess’ surrounding contemporary confirmation politics will not be appealing to majoritarians.
- Formal governmental censorship is rare and moral majoritarians have been relatively ineffective in the effort to criminalize rock concerts through the instrumentality of the courts.
- The majoritarian says, ‘If you want to know who should prevail in a conflict, take a vote.’
- Some liberals have been majoritarians with a limited concern for the rights of minorities; some conservatives have been valiant defenders of the liberties of conscience and expression.
- Yet this argument runs into trouble once it is conceded that majoritarians of the earlier period were ‘mostly good Americans.’
- He is not a moral majoritarian, but he isn't going to be extending the boundaries of personal morality either.
- Sunstein insists there are four categories: majoritarians, perfectionists, minimalists and fundamentalists.
- Liberals bash the Hindutva brigade in newspapers and TV channels, the majoritarians bash the rest of us.
- Ardent majoritarians may be scandalized by the fact that 51 senators from the least populous states, representing just 17 percent of the nation's population, could defeat a bill.
- Third, I do not claim that all the Founders were ‘libertarians,’ but (as I discuss in my book but not in this paper) neither were they democratic majoritarians.
- It has been an important test of the Scottish parliament, from which it has emerged battered but intact after a challenge to its legitimacy from the moral majoritarians.
- We live in a world in which the people who want the government to be more involved in our lives include moral majoritarians and old New Dealers.
- Elections are rarely worth defending, and certainly are not the holy things modern-day majoritarians say they are.
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