Editing Concurrent majority (section)

{{short description|Democratic provision limiting majority rule}}
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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 ... each group involved must give its consent".<ref name=Woll>Peter Woll, ''American Government: Readings and Cases'' (Pearson/Longman, 2006), p. 259.</ref> There must be majority support within each affected group concurrently.<ref name=Woll/>

As a political principle, it enables minorities to block the actions of majorities. In the [[United States]], its most vocal proponents have tended to be minority groups.<ref>{{Cite book|title = Dreams of a More Perfect Union|last = Kersh|first = Rogan|publisher = Cornell university Press|year = 2004|location = Ithaca and New York|pages = 141–42}}</ref> The concurrent majority was intended to prevent the [[tyranny of the majority]] that proponents feared might arise in an unlimited [[democracy]] by granting some form of veto power to each of the conflicting interests in society.