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tahrj-2314	Jiménez Sánchez, José J.	Bentham Was Right. Was He?	2015	10	.pdf	application/pdf	5723	247	61	However, Rousseau believes that it is feasible to establish the general will through majority rule. He will maintain that majority rule cannot be justified “by saying that more votes carry a greater total weight than fewer votes”, since the “purely negative assumption that the will of one person should not count more than the will of another does not entail the positive claim that the will of the majority should rule” 26 .The reason which justifies majority rule is that if in a given social order it is not possible for all men to be free, the use of such a rule would at least ensure they were “the greatest possible number”, so “that the number of individual wills that are in conflict with the general 24 H. Kelsen, The Essence and Value of Democracy, ed. by N. Urbinati and C. Invernizzi Accetti, trans. by B. Graf, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Lanham, Maryland, 2013 (1929), pos.	cache/tahrj-2314.pdf	txt/tahrj-2314.txt