Relationship,Limit,Procedure

The majority principle, the lex majoris parties, is the key rule of democratic decision-making. It has significance on the construction of socialist political civilization, that is, it is the prerequisite to realize the equality of citizen's rights and is the mechanism of balancing political powers. Just from the point, the thesis bases itself upon the medium aspect and from three angles of the relationship, the limit and the procedure, conducts research on the majority principle in the democratic vision.The definition of majority principle includes content and form. The content of majority principle includes some developing stages, namely the ancient meanings and the modern meanings. The forms of majority principle includes general majority principle and exceeding majority principle.The relationship between the majority and the minority is the logic foundation of the thesis, Based on the investigation to misunderstandings of the relationship between the majority and the minority and forming reasons of these misunderstandings, the thesis poses three restrictive factors on background of the relationship and sums up the kernel of the relationship: equal legal status.The thesis focuses on the limit of the majority. On the basis of the definition of the limit. It comes to three conclusions, namely the majority principle should regard protecting the majority's legitimate rights and interests as its limit, the majority principle should regard preventing tyranny of the majority as its limit and the majority principle should regard maintaining the justice of the procedure as its limit.The procedure characteristics of the majority principle is the route choice which maintains the limit of the majority principle. Built on the comparison between the procedure democracy and the entity democracy,...