[EM] Majority Rule

Anthony Simmons bbadonov at yahoo.com
Sun Jul 29 06:46:00 PDT 2001


>> From: Bart Ingles <bartman at netgate.net>
>> Subject: Re: Responses to some of Forest's ideas

>> DEMOREP1 at aol.com wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > See *consent of the governed* in the second paragraph of the U.S.A.
>> > Declaration of Independence.
>> >
>> > Democracy means majority rule --- as far as elections are concerned.

>> Says who?  Maybe as far as two-candidate elections are concerned.  The
>> phrase 'majority rule' itself seems historically recent.

And perhaps a bit out of place in a context such as STV,
which would be, according to the "definition", undemocratic.



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