countermajoritarian

From counter- +‎ majority +‎ -arian.

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countermajoritarian (comparative more countermajoritarian, superlative most countermajoritarian)

1. Opposing the dominance of the majority over the minority.
   • 2020, Kalvis Golde, “House Democrats to introduce new bill for Supreme Court term limits”, in SCOTUSblog:

     “Regular appointments can reduce the contentiousness of nominations and result in a bench that’s still independent and countermajoritarian,” [Gabe] Roth [of Fix the Court] said.

• majoritarian

• countermajoritarianism

• minoritarian

countermajoritarian (plural countermajoritarians)

1. One who opposes the dominance of the majority over the minority.

• majoritarian

• minoritarian