alf of a total.
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| majority rule.  a political principle providing that a
| majority usually constituted by fifty percent plus one
| of an organized group will have the power to make
| decisions binding upon the whole.
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| plurality.  3.a.  a number greater than another.
|             3.b.  an excess of votes over those
|                   cast for an opposing candidate.
|             3.c.  a number of votes cast for a candidate
|                   in a contest of more than two candidates
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