How to Use majority rule in a Sentence
majority rule
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The Supreme Court is poised to cut the heart out of majority rule.
—Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2022
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The House can crank out bills where the majority rules.
—Chad Pergram, Fox News, 4 July 2018
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The players agreed to put it to a vote — majority rule.
—Christian Clark | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 19 Sep. 2020
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The lesson from France is that restraints on majority rule are a good thing.
—Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 6 Dec. 2018
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But we humans still cling to majority rule as a way to curtail chaos among the masses.
—Dallas News, 2 Nov. 2022
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But the current system of democracy — with-one-person-one-vote and majority rule — is the source of the problem.
—Eric Posner and Glen Weyl, Vox, 29 June 2018
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The party knows its governing days are numbered and is now in open revolt against the prospect of majority rule.
—Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 25 Jan. 2021
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The majority rules in the House, and the supermajority rules in the Senate.
—The Washington Post, OregonLive.com, 11 Apr. 2018
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Then there's Paul's attempt to use Jim Crow laws as evidence of the dangers of majority rule.
—Chris Cillizza, CNN, 14 June 2021
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Elites always want to contract the electorate because there is a fear of majority rule.
—How To Save A Country, The New Republic, 6 Oct. 2022
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And the people are encouraged to use majority rule to take property away from those who have too damn much.
—John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 2 July 2019
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As scholars have shown, the men who wrote the Constitution intended the Senate to work by majority rule, as the House does.
—David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2021
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In fact, the surest way to stifle innovation is to subject it to majority rule.
—WSJ, 21 July 2017
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Things proceeded with a sense, an air, of majority rule.
—Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 8 Apr. 2021
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True to its origins, then, shifting the courts right has been a means of insulating the rules that govern the economy from majority rule.
—Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 14 Oct. 2020
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There aren’t enough votes in the Senate yet to kill the filibuster altogether and move to simple majority rule.
—Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2021
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Such a protest enacts the super-majority rule, which means that three-fourths of the council would have to approve Prestwick's proposals.
—Jordyn Noennig, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Feb. 2018
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But it should not be read as a Damascene conversion to the principle of black majority rule.
—Christi Van Der Westhuizen, Quartz, 15 Nov. 2021
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But the filibuster is an even more egregious insult to the principle of majority rule.
—Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2020
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Many of his compositions were about the struggle for majority rule and full democratic rights in South Africa.
—Krista Mahr, Sun-Sentinel.com, 23 Jan. 2018
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His efforts to rally his countrymen around a demand for black majority rule twice led Rhodesia’s white rulers to throw him in prison.
—Patrick McGroarty, WSJ, 17 June 2021
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Mike McCarter knows the concept of majority rule can certainly be messy.
—CBS News, 16 Oct. 2022
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In the current environment, the real danger is too little majority rule rather than too much of it.
—John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 3 May 2022
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As in Hungary, countries relied on courts, based on the new constitutions, to enforce rights and check majority rule.
—Emily Bazelon, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2023
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Those sorts of laws do the exact thing that Paul is touting as proof-positive of the negative effects of majority rule governance.
—Chris Cillizza, CNN, 14 June 2021
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The ease with which both parties swing from praise to condemnation of their fellow senators confirms that the Framers got it right in making the Senate a constraint on majority rule.
—James Huffman, WSJ, 26 Dec. 2021
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In the court’s most recent case dealing with these issues, the majority ruled again 7-2 that the placement of a 40-foot-tall cross on public property did not violate the establishment clause.
—Stephanie Barclay, Twin Cities, 11 Nov. 2019
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Instead, the majority ruled at the time that the act of police affixing a GPS device to a vehicle amounted to trespassing—so warrants were required.
—David Kravets, Ars Technica, 2 Oct. 2017
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The structural changes to sideline national high courts like those that Hungary made and Netanyahu’s coalition proposed point to the ways in which the main tool of democracy — majority rule — can be used to undermine it.
—Emily Bazelon, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2023
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House Republicans began their new majority rule by failing to elect a speaker.
—Catie Edmondson, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2023
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