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A plurality decision is a court decision in which no opinion received the support of a majority of the judges. A plurality opinion is the judicial opinion or opinions which received the most support among those opinions which supported the plurality decision. The plurality opinion did not receive the support of more than half the justices, but ...
Plurality decision, in a decision by a multi-member court, an opinion held by more judges than any other but not by an overall majority; Plurality (voting), when a candidate or proposition polls more votes than any other but does not receive more than half of all votes cast
Classical pluralism is the view that politics and decision-making are located mostly in the framework of government but that many non-governmental groups use their resources to exert influence. The central question for classical pluralism is how power and influence are distributed in a political process. Groups of individuals try to maximize ...
First-past-the-post (FPTP)—also called choose-one, first-preference plurality (FPP), or simply plurality—is a single-winner voting rule. Voters mark one candidate as their favorite, or first-preference , and the candidate with the most first-preference marks (a plurality ) is elected, regardless of whether they have over half of votes (a ...
A common alternative to the majority rule is the plurality-rule family of voting rules, which includes ranked choice voting (RCV), two-round plurality, and first-preference plurality. These rules are often used in elections with more than two candidates.
In a plurality decision that cited the 14th Amendment, Chief Justice Charles Evan Hughes rejected the notion that "the Congress can disregard the obligations of the government at its discretion ...
Generally, the Court's decision is the opinion which a majority (five or more) of justices have joined. In rare instances, the Court will issue a plurality opinion in which four or fewer Justices agree on one opinion, but the others are so fractured that they cannot agree on a position. In this circumstance, in order to determine what the ...
Board of Education ruling, sent federal troops to Little Rock when Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus defied a court-ordered desegregation plan and tried to prevent nine Black students from entering ...