Richard Briffault, Home Rule, Majority Rule, and Dillon's Rule, 67 Chi.- Kent L. Rev. 1011 19911011 1991
He believed that Rhodesia was entitled to her independence, and disagreed with the British government's demand for 'no independence before majority rule', but was opposed to illegal action.
Ian Smith, the former Rhodesian prime minister, who made his unilateral declaration of independence from Britain in 1965 and fought a bitter rearguard action to prevent black majority rule, never lost the ability to inspire strong emotion.
They hope these changes will return the body to majority rule and block a stubborn minority from holding up action.
The Senate's current Republican minority has exposed the rule's fatal flaw: the filibuster tosses majority rule aside and imposes a supermajority requirement for Senate action.
Now that the tyranny of the Republican minority — the ability of 1/3 of the California legislature to hold any action hostage – has ended with voter approval of majority rule, now that Democrat Jerry Brown has been elected governor, watch California roll.
Otherwise, majority rule is deemed adequate.
No guarantee of majority rule.
