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We provide axioms that relate the preferences of each group in a society to the preferences
of the subgroups contained in them. These axioms yield cardinal utility indices
for each individual and a representation of group preferences as the group-dependent
weighted sum of the utility indices of the members of that group. We show that these
weights are group-independent whenever one additional axiom, and a mild linear independence
assumption are satisfied.
