Facts About Caffeine. Caffeine is a stimulant and a diuretic. Because caffeine is a stimulant, it increases your blood pressure and heart rate, both of which are not recommended during pregnancy. Caffeine also increases the frequency of urination. This causes reduction in your body fluid levels and can lead to dehydration. Caffeine crosses the placenta to your baby.
A doctrine by which a numerical majority of an organized group holds the power to make decisions binding on all in the group. Noun. 1. majority rule - the doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group. democracy. doctrine, ism, philosophical system, philosophy, school of thought - a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
In reality he was and is a plebiscitarian dictator who has the overwhelming support of his people. So the consent of the people cannot be the decisive measure of democracy. And here again, the wisdom of Aristotle reveals itself. He makes exactly this point. He says, Mere majority rule is tyranny because it doesn't allow for any change in the ruler-for any organic process of change, as we would say.