supermajoritarian
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
7
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Supporting the requirement that proponents of a position have a supermajority if they wish to overrule the minority.
Example Sentences
- "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 elected."
- "The core of Ackerman's idea is to offer the Executive substantial emergency power in exchange for the political safeguard of a supermajoritarian escalator."
- "Moreover, many things that win supermajoritarian approval do so through what John Rawls called an overlapping consensus and what Cass Sunstein calls incompletely theorized agreements."
Etymology
From supermajority + -arian.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more supermajoritarian (comparative)
most supermajoritarian (superlative)