Majority Rule

[DEMOREP1 at aol.com]

Mr. Ingles wrote-

Of course, it would depend on where you look within the process. 
Multi-seat STV would do away with any pretense of majority rule within a
district.  But when looking at the makeup of a legislature, it would be
more likely that a party with a majority of voters would control a
majority of seats overall under PR.

But then you have to deal with the decision-making process within the
legislature -- which requires another level of multi-candidate
decision-making.  The current plurality-elected U.S. legislatures tend
to be made up almost exclusively of two parties, so legislative votes
usually do return a majority decision.  PR would tend to undermine
this.  Not that it's a real concern, but all of this just further
illustrates the emptiness of the term 'majority rule'.
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D- This is becoming very strange.

IF ANY majority of the voters can elect legislators who have a majority of 
the voting power in the legislative body (using an *accurate* proportional 
representation system) and IF there is a majority requirement in the 
legislative body for the enactment of laws, then there will be indirect 
majority rule (aka Democracy).

The first IF is the major problem.

The second IF currently applies in many but NOT all legislative bodies -- 
notably NOT in the U.S.A. Congress (it is a majority of a quorum).