Meanings
adjectiveantimajoritarian (not comparable)
- not comparablegovernmentOpposing majority rule
Federalism itself is an antimajoritarian mechanism for, by devolving power to smaller constituencies, it places some policy issues beyond the reach of the center's majority.
2004, Ugo M. Amoretti, Nancy Gina Bermeo, Federalism and Territorial Cleavages, →ISBN, page 10
nounantimajoritarian (plural antimajoritarians)
plural antimajoritarians
- One who opposes majority rule.
Origin
Translations
Portuguese antimajoritário
- antimajoritárioopposing majority rule
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