Synonyms for majority rule
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1. majority rule, democracynoun

   the doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group

   Synonyms:
   democracy, republic, commonwealth

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1. Jonar Nader:

   The majority-rule society has produced nothing more than heart-ache and intolerance. Throughout this majority-rule period it has been the members of the minority who have made an impact. It only takes one person to kill a hundred. It only takes one dictator to oppress millions. For better or for worse, it is the daring few who have shaped this so-called majority-rule society.

2. Jonar Nader:

   Inventors, pioneers, radicals, visionaries; these have ventured from the lonely and costly camp of minority only to be obstructed by majority-rule concepts that tolerate inferiority, hinder progress, harbor injustice, and pose limits within the decaying status quo.

3. Harper Lee:

   The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

4. Joe Biden:

   I support changing the Senate rules in whichever way they need to be changed to prevent a minority of Senators from blocking action on voting rights, when it comes to protecting majority rule in America, the majority should rule in the United States Senate.

5. Catherine Rampell:

   Well, it's partly what you just mentioned, it's partly that we don't have majority rule in the Senate … [so the Democrats] have to cram everything into this one major piece of legislation … They have to do climate, they have to do paid leave, they have to do child care, they have to do green energy tax credits for cars and things like that. They have to put everything into this legislation because they can't do piecemeal regular-order bills because the Senate doesn't function like that way anymore.