Majority Rule and The Loyal Opposition

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Majority Rule and The Loyal Opposition

The concept of the “loyal opposition” arose from British parliamentary debates in the nineteenth century—that eventually institutionalized opposition through a minority party shadow cabinet—and does not have a concrete definition or legal meaning in the U.S. constitutional system.The point of establishing and empowering a formal opposition is to allow for official policy scrutiny and dissent from the ruling majority within the structure and valu…