“Human ingenuity has not evolved a better method for corporate decisions than the majority principle.”

— Muhammad Asad , book The Principles of State and Government in Islam

Source: The Principles of State and Government in Islam (1961), Chapter 3: Government By Consent And Consent, p 50

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Austro-Hungarian writer and academic 1900–1992

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