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1. Majority: Majority, a term signifying the greater number. In legislative and deliberative assemblies it is usual to decide questions by a majority of those present at a meeting and voting. In law, majority is the state of being of full age ... [100%] 2022-09-02
2. Majority: More than half of a given number or group; the greater part: applied to opinions. In their endeavor to find a Biblical basis for every principle of law the Rabbis interpreted Ex. so as to derive the majority principle from ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [100%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
3. Majority: A majority, also called a simple majority or absolute majority to distinguish it from related terms, is more than half of the total. It is a subset of a set consisting of more than half of the set's elements. (Social) [100%] 2023-04-23 [Elections]
4. Majority function: In Boolean logic, the majority function (also called the median operator) is the Boolean function that evaluates to false when half or more arguments are false and true otherwise, i.e. the value of the function equals the value of ... [70%] 2023-12-14 [Logic gates] [Circuit complexity]...
5. American Majority: American Majority (en español: Mayoría estadounidense) es una organización sin ánimo de lucro que ofrece capacitación a los activistas conservadores y a los candidatos políticos en los Estados Unidos. American Majority está registrada como una organización sin fines de lucro 501 ... [70%] 2023-12-06
6. Majority leader: The Majority Leader is the leader of the Majority Party in the Senate and the House of Representatives. They have roles as spokesmen for their parties and help guide the party's legislative agenda. [70%] 2023-06-25 [United States Congress]
7. Moral Majority: Moral Majority was an American political organization associated with the Christian right and Republican Party. It was founded in 1979 by Baptist minister Jerry Falwell Sr. (American right-wing Christian political organization) [70%] 2023-11-23 [American Christian political organizations] [History of Christianity in the United States]...
8. Minor Majority: Norwegian pop group Minor Majority was formed by Pål Angelskår and Andreas Berczelly as a studio project in the spring of 2000. Their first record, Walking Home from Nicole's, was released one year later with significant help from singer ... (Norwegian pop band) [70%] 2023-12-06 [Spellemannprisen winners] [Norwegian musical groups]...
9. Majority Whip: Majority whips are assistants to the floor leaders who are also elected by their party conferences. The Majority and Minority Whips (and their assistants) are responsible for mobilizing votes within their parties on major issues. [70%] 2023-02-15 [United States Senate Terms]
10. Moral Majority: The Moral Majority was a conservative Christian coalition organized in 1979 by Rev. Jerry Falwell. [70%] 2023-02-27 [Conservative Organizations] [Christian Organizations]...
11. Majority judgment: Majority judgment (MJ) is a single-winner voting system proposed in 2010 by Michel Balinski and Rida Laraki. It is a kind of highest median rule, a cardinal voting system that elects the candidate with the highest median rating. (Single-winner cardinal voting system) [70%] 2024-02-08 [Single-winner electoral systems] [Cardinal electoral systems]...
12. Majority decision: A majority decision (MD) is a winning criterion in several full-contact combat sports, such as boxing, kickboxing, Muay Thai, mixed martial arts and others sports involving striking. In a majority decision, two of the three judges agree on which ... (Winning criterion in combat sports) [70%] 2024-01-10 [Boxing rules and regulations]
13. Silent Majority: First invoked in politics by Richard Nixon, the Silent Majority is a hypothetical mass of citizens that approve of the speaker's position, but have not publicly expressed this in any tangible way. It is the off-line equivalent of ... [70%] 2023-12-08 [Fallacious arguments] [Appeals to authority]...
14. Majority Leader: The Majority Leader and Minority Leader are elected by their respective party conferences to serve as the chief Senate spokesmen for their parties and to manage and schedule the legislative and executive business of the Senate. By custom, the Presiding ... [70%] 2023-02-28 [United States Senate Terms]
15. Majority government: A majority government is a government by one or more governing parties that hold an absolute majority of seats in a legislature. Such a government can consist of one party that holds a majority on its own, or be a ... (One or multiple governing parties that hold an absolute majority of seats in a legislature) [70%] 2023-12-21 [Political terminology] [Government]...
16. Moral Majority: Perhaps you were looking for Mobocracy? The Moron Moral Minority Majority was a cult special interest group founded by Jerry Falwell, designed to inject Christian fundamentalism into politics. [70%] 2023-08-07 [Anti-abortion activists] [Anti-Catholicism]...
17. American Majority: American Majority established in 2008, is the premiere grassroots political training organization for conservative candidates and activists engaging at the state level. They are headquartered in Purcellville, Virginia, as a national non-profit, non-partisan political training institute whose mission ... [70%] 2023-02-22 [Tea Party Movement] [Conservative Organizations]...
18. American Majority: American Majority is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in Purcellville, Virginia, that provides candidate and activist training for persons who identify as ideological conservatives. Under the Internal Revenue Code, 501(c)(3) allows contributions to it to ... [70%] 2023-09-27
19. Moral Majority: Moral Majority : A Christian Right political action group founded in 1979 by Jerry Falwell, Sr. and disbanded in 1989 so he could focus on Liberty University; The Moral Majority Coalition revived the term in 2004. [70%] 2023-08-16
20. Majority rule: Majority rule is the principle that a group which has more than half of all voters should be allowed to make the decisions for a group. Majority rule is the binary decision rule most often used in decision-making bodies ... (Decision rule that selects alternatives which have a majority) [70%] 2024-03-24 [Monotonic electoral systems] [Voting theory]...
21. Majority opinion: In law, a majority opinion is a judicial opinion agreed to by more than half of the members of a court. A majority opinion sets forth the decision of the court and an explanation of the rationale behind the court ... (Social) [70%] 2024-03-29 [Legal terminology]
22. Majority problem: The majority problem, or density classification task, is the problem of finding one-dimensional cellular automaton rules that accurately perform majority voting. Using local transition rules, cells cannot know the total count of all the ones in system. [70%] 2024-06-04 [Cellular automata]
23. Progressive Majority: This article is currently outside of Ballotpedia's coverage scope and does not receive scheduled updates. If you would like to help our coverage scope grow, consider donating to Ballotpedia. [70%] 2024-08-31 [Organizations] [National influencers]...
24. Moral Majority: Moral Majority (« Majorité morale ») est une ancienne organisation politique fondamentaliste des États-Unis dont le but était de faire du lobbying pour des actions politiques favorables aux groupes évangéliques et plus largement, chrétiens. Elle a été fondée en 1979 et dissoute en ... [70%] 2024-09-13
25. Majority minority: A majority-minority or minority-majority area is a term used to refer to a subdivision in which one or more racial, ethnic, and/or religious minorities (relative to the whole country's population) make up a majority of the ... (Term used to refer to a subdivision) [70%] 2024-10-10 [Demographics of the United States] [Majority–minority relations]...
26. New Majority (Peru): New Majority (Spanish: Nueva Mayoría, NM), was a Peruvian right-wing political party founded in 1992 for the Democratic Constituent Congress election held on the same year. Throughout the 1990s until late-2000, was the most powerful political party in ... (Peru) [57%] 2023-12-11 [Conservative parties in Peru] [Political parties established in 1992]...
27. Majority bonus system: The majority bonus system (MBS) is a form of semi-proportional representation used in some European countries. Its feature is a majority bonus which gives extra seats or representation in an elected body to the party or to the joined ... (Semi-proportional representation system) [57%] 2023-12-30 [Semi-proportional electoral systems] [Electoral systems]...
28. Feminist Majority Foundation: The Feminist Majority Foundation is a non-profit feminist political advocacy group founded in 1987 and based in Arlington, Virginia. The group advocates and campaigns for gender equality, countering anti-feminist sentiment and training the next generation of feminists. [57%] 2023-08-24
29. Feminist Majority Foundation: The Feminist Majority Foundation (FMF) is a non-profit organization headquartered in Arlington County, Virginia, whose stated mission is to advance non-violence and women's power, equality, and economic development. The name Feminist Majority comes from a 1986 Newsweek ... (Non-profit organisation in the USA) [57%] 2023-08-19 [Feminist organizations in the United States] [Organizations established in 1987]...
30. Majority bonus system: The majority bonus system (MBS) is a form of semi-proportional representation used in some European countries. Its feature is a majority bonus which gives extra seats or representation in an elected body to the party or to the joined ... (Social) [57%] 2023-08-24 [Electoral systems]
31. Double majority: A double majority is a voting system which requires a majority of votes according to two separate criteria. The mechanism is usually used to require strong support for any measure considered to be of great importance. (Social) [70%] 2023-10-01 [Legal terminology]
32. Global majority: "Global majority" is a collective term for non-white people of African, Asian, Latin American, and Arab descent, who constitute approximately 85 percent of the global population. It has been used as an alternative to terms which are seen as ... (Ethnic groups of the majority global population) [70%] 2023-11-19 [Majority–minority relations] [Ethnicity]...
33. Global majority: "Global majority" is a collective term for ethnic groups which constitute approximately 85 percent of the global population. It has been used as an alternative to terms which are seen as racialized like "ethnic minority" and "person of color" (POC ... (Social) [70%] 2023-08-25 [Ethnicity] [Linguistic controversies]...
34. Amish majority: Amish majority is recognition that at current rates of population growth by Amish and decline by other demographics, it is possible or even likely that Amish will attain a majority in the United States in 200 years. The Amish population ... [70%] 2023-02-27
35. Qualified-majority: Qualified-majority : A stipulated number of votes cast, the number of votes allocated to each member state having been determined by its population size group. [70%] 2023-06-10
36. Concurrent majority: A Concurrent Majority is a majority composed of majorities within various subgroups. As a system of government, it means that "major government policy decisions must be approved by the dominant interest groups directly affected .. (Social) [70%] 2023-08-17 [Political theories]
37. Ethnic majority: An ethnic majority describes the numerical dominance of individuals of an ethnic group within the total population of a particular political or geographical entity. Ethnicity refers to genealogy, language, culture, identification with a historical social group and behavioral practices inherited ... (Social) [70%] 2023-12-11 [Ethnicity]
38. Silent majority: A silent majority is a large amount of people who, as the term implies, constitute a majority or large amount of the population on a certain issue or issues, but have not openly expressed their opinions. This causes the opposing ... [70%] 2023-03-04 [Conservatism] [Political Terms]...
39. Working majority: Working majority : In a parliamentary democracy, the number of politicians in the governing party minus those of all other parties combined, excluding those that do not normally vote. [70%] 2023-06-08
40. Double majority: A double majority is a voting system which requires a majority of votes according to two separate criteria. The mechanism is usually used to require strong support for any measure considered to be of great importance. (Type of voting procedure) [70%] 2023-11-22 [Voting theory] [Legal terminology]...
41. Absolute majority: An absolute majority refers to a share of something that is greater than all the other shares put together (i.e., greater than half of the total). In the context of an election, it differs from a simple majority in ... [70%] 2023-06-30 [Election Terms]