Consensus in the Commons, 1547-1642 -- Consensus imperiled, 1640-1641 -- Consensus destroyed, 1641-1643 -- Revolutionary decisions, 1643-1660 -- The majority institutionalized, 1660-1800 -- Little parliaments in the Atlantic colonies, 1613-1789. "This book is the first history …
This expansive history of the origins of majority rule in modern representative government charts the emergence of majority voting as a global standard for decision-making in popular assemblies. Majority votes had, of course, been held prior to 1642, but not since antiquity had …
"This book is the first history of the origins of majority rule in modern representative government. It charts and explains the emergence of majority voting as a global standard for decision-making in popular assemblies. It focuses on the crucial moment in the majority's triumph…
"This book is the first history of the origins of majority rule in modern representative government. It charts and explains the emergence of majority voting as a global standard for decision-making in popular assemblies. It focuses on the crucial moment in the majority's triumph…
"This book is the first history of the origins of majority rule in modern representative government. It charts and explains the emergence of majority voting as a global standard for decision-making in popular assemblies. It focuses on the crucial moment in the majority's triumph…
"Supermajority rules govern many features of our lives in common: from the selection of textbooks for our children's schools to residential covenants, from the policy choices of state and federal legislatures to constitutional amendments. It is usually assumed that these rules a…
Supermajority rules govern many features of our lives in common: from the selection of textbooks for our children's schools to residential covenants, from the policy choices of state and federal legislatures to constitutional amendments. It is usually assumed that these rules ar…
Supermajority rules govern many features of our lives in common: from the selection of textbooks for our children's schools to residential covenants, from the policy choices of state and federal legislatures to constitutional amendments. It is usually assumed that these rules ar…
"Supermajority rules govern many features of our lives in common: from the selection of textbooks for our children's schools to residential covenants, from the policy choices of state and federal legislatures to constitutional amendments. It is usually assumed that these rules a…
Published one year after 'Forget Foucault', 'In The Shadow Of The Silent Majorities' may be the most important sociopolitical manifesto of the 20th century: it calls for nothing less than the end of both sociology and politics.
Majorities and minorities
In this thirty-second annual volume in the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy's NOMOS series, entitled Majorities and Minorities, thirteen distinguished contributors consider a diverse selection of topics. Included are essays on legitimacy of the majority, the u…