"majority principle" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to express the idea that decisions should be made on the basis of what most people agree upon or agree is the best course of action. For example, "We used the majority principle to select the best candidate for the job."
In the referendum vote, however, the majority principle applies, which means that minority rights or interests can be endangered.
In the General Assembly a two-thirds majority decides on important matters, but, since the Assembly's decisions are not binding and are merely recommendations, this qualified majority principle must be viewed as of little significance.
The majority principle and respect for minority groups is a possible example of a conflictive situation between two social principles.
This analysis reveals a deep tension between rules based on the majority principle and rules which protect minorities by taking account of preferences in a more extended way (see Pattanaik 2002).
And you know principle doesn't know minority and majority; principle is deeply held".
Many intuitively appealing rules, like the majority principle, fail to provide a rational explanation.
One side, quoting Madison, invoked the democratic principle of majority rule; the other, quoting Jefferson, invoked the democratic principle of minority rights.
Union convictions often tended to focus on somewhat abstract principles: national unity, constitutional liberty, survival of the republican experiment, the principle of majority rule.
For Lincoln, however, the doctrine of unlimited majority rule violated the principle of constitutional government.
The principle of majority rule was rejected as anathema by the white minority.
But liberals also had to reconcile the principle of majority rule with the requirement that the power of the majority be limited.
