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Majority rule and assuring the common good is served are two important concepts to democratic decision making.  Majority rule ensures that the majority of society's members support a decision.  This follows the principle that society is more likely to be happy with the decision and will most likely serve the common good.  If the common good is not being served it would mean a large portion of the community is unhappy with decisions being made and decision making is no longer "by the people."  When a decision is made for the common good with a supporting majority, people believe that either their ideas matter or that they were at least taken into account and beaten by the numbers.  For a democratic decision making process which makes it's members content, the common good must be served and majority rule implemented.