| ▲ | malfist 2 hours ago | |||||||
Feel free to disregard this because ultimately its a tangent that doesn't matter; but supermajority is specifically a political term referring to the required threshold to advance legislation when simple majority isn't procedurally enough. It doesn't mean simply a greater share of.a majority | ||||||||
| ▲ | zmgsabst 2 hours ago | parent [-] | |||||||
This is how language evolves. For supermajority: the construction means “beyond majority” or “above majority”, it is implemented as a higher percentage in most systems, and there is a utility in being able to refer to high ratio majority. So people have repurposed a technical word to a general word, of roughly the same meaning. | ||||||||
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