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From: josh@topaz.ARPA (J Storrs Hall)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Exactamoondo!
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Date: Tue, 8-Jan-85 17:46:28 EST
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> I think majority rule should do fine. In any case, if the majority want
> something, they are going to get it, no matter how right your political 
> views are...
> 
> 	Wayne

Not necessarily.  If the majority has a vague preference for something,
and the minority has a fanatical life-and-death preference against it,
the minority will (and should) have its way.  Simple head-counting misses
these subtleties.

--JoSH