Meaning of majoritarian | Babel Free

Definitions

Supporting the dominance of the majority over the minority.

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Examples

“Early in June came the delegation of the German Majority Socialists, which included—besides [Philipp] Scheidemann, the Majoritarian leader—that Hermann Müller who, on the eve of the declaration of war, had invited the French Socialists to vote against war credits.”

“He [Paul Cambon] knows how to use to the best advantage of everybody concerned a secretary of Embassy, an officer, a bishop, or a “Majoritarian” Socialist.”

“A better peace and one no more likely to be broken by another war than the one that the Conference is supposed to be trying to arrange could have been got long ago, if it had suited the Allied statesmen to permit the mediation of the Pope, or, later, to work for peace with the Majoritarian Government of Russia.”

“No. He proposes to employ majoritarian bullying to overturn the legal and constitutional balance of power for the vapid purpose of upholding “popular values,” whatever and whose ever those are.”

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