But, how does a people hit the reset button when it requires at least 51 percent agreeing to do so and any such systemic reset will always run counter to the short-run interests of some majority agglomeration of minority interests?

FORBES: The Myriad Infirmities of Democracy

Countries such as Germany, which come closer than most to believing in a common European interest, tend to talk of it in terms of the interests of a majority of EU countries, not the interests of all.

ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

The bigger the majority in whose interests the government is ruling, the larger the encompassing interest.

ECONOMIST: Out of anarchy