Sentence examples similar to majoritarian preferences from inspiring English sources

"This most illiberal Court," he wrote in dissent from a 1996 decision that opened the Virginia Military Institute to female cadets, "has embarked on a course of inscribing one after another of the current preferences of the society (and in some cases only the counter-majoritarian preferences of the society's law trained elite) into our Basic Law".

Or that we saw the beginning of a democratic, majoritarian U.S. Senate -- even against Reid's preferences?

Police enforce majoritarian mandates".

So Breyer is a majoritarian — sometimes.

Polls, Rogers believed, are a majoritarian monstrosity.

Presidential elections use an indirect, majoritarian system.

"We have a majoritarian mindset," Hazell says.

Perhaps the greatest danger is majoritarian hubris.

"It was actually very majoritarian," he said.

Is a majoritarian system a good idea?

Furthermore, if an elected politician--let us say the President--tends to respond to majoritarian interests, while an administrative agency, if left to its own devices, does not, then it may seem self-evident that giving the politician greater influence over the agency, all else equal, will always increase the degree to which agency decisions reflect voter preferences.