This expansive history of the origins of majority rule in modern
representative government charts the emergence of majority voting
as a global standard for decision-making in popular assemblies.
Majority votes had, of course, been held prior to 1642, but not
since antiquity had they been held with any frequency by a popular
assembly with responsibility for the fate of a nation. The crucial
moment in the global triumph of majority rule was its embrace by
the elected assemblies of early modern Britain and its empire.
William J. Bulman analyzes its sudden appearance in the English
House of Commons and its adoption by the elected assemblies of
Britain's Atlantic colonies in the age of the English, Glorious,
and American Revolutions. These events made it overwhelmingly
likely that the United Kingdom, the United States, and their former
dependencies would become and remain fundamentally majoritarian
polities. Providing an insightful commentary on the state of
democratic governance today, this study sheds light on the nature,
promise, and perils of majority rule.
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