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'''Majority rule''' is a way of [[decision-making|making decisions]] in [[government]] or in voting. A decision is made if it gets more than half of the votes.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.colorado.edu/conflict/peace/treatment/majority.htm |title=Archived copy |access-date=2011-04-18 |archive-date=2012-02-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120214040549/http://www.colorado.edu/conflict/peace/treatment/majority.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> Majority rule is often used in [[referendum|referendums]], which is when voters decide if they want to make a law by voting yes or no.

Majority rule is not the same as a plurality vote. In [[Plurality voting]], which is often used in [[election|elections]], whoever gets the most votes wins. With a plurality vote, the winner can have fewer than half of the votes if there are more than two choices. Elections for the [[house of Commons]] and many similar parliamentary bodies are done by plurality.

The U.S uses a plurality rule in their presidential elections.

Some people have criticized majority rule because it can lead to the [[tyranny]] of the majority which is not true [[democracy]], where people who are the [[majority]] might vote for something that helps them but hurts the people in the [[minority group|minority]] or may even cause the negation of universal [[human rights]], like [[Enabling Act]]. To prevent them, limit of [[constitutionalism]] and [[rule of law]] are established by German Constitution, as well as [[Council of Europe]] and [[European Union]]. This was also used in Greek voting.

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