supermajoritarian
supermajoritarian adjective: supporting the requirement that proponents of a position have a supermajority if they wish to overrule the minority.
Adjective
supermajoritarian (comparative more supermajoritarian, superlative most supermajoritarian)
- Supporting the requirement that proponents of a position have a supermajority if they wish to overrule the minority.
- These supermajoritarian proposals mark a significant departure from our normal majoritarian processes and would often permit minority political interests in one House to thwart the electorate's most recent expression of support for the policies offered by a majority of the representatives it had...1987, United States Congress, House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Monopolies and Commercial Law, Proposed Balanced Budget Constitutional Amendments: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on...
- The core of Ackerman's idea is to offer the Executive substantial emergency power in exchange for the political safeguard of a supermajoritarian escalator.2009, David Dyzenhaus, Civil Rights and Security, page 146
Forms of supermajoritarian
| comparative | more supermajoritarian |
|---|---|
| superlative | most supermajoritarian |
Origin of supermajoritarian
From supermajority + -arian.
Words formed from supermajoritarian
Questions about supermajoritarian
- What does supermajoritarian mean?
- Supermajoritarian means supporting the requirement that proponents of a position have a supermajority if they wish to overrule the minority.
- What part of speech is supermajoritarian?
- Supermajoritarian is an adjective.
Words near supermajoritarian in the dictionary
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