[geeks] 4th Amendment Gone

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Fri, 02 Apr 2004 @ 03:41 -0500, Michael Schiller said:

> Of course there are other problems with the idea. For starters, if 
> you're no longer voting in your representatives, then it ceases to be a 
> democracy (like it really is now?), so you have to come up with a name 
> for this new form of government. 

What is wrong with continuing to call it the rebublic that it is?

Democracy in the USA is a process, not the form of government.

The founders, Jefferson in particular, studied democracy as government
form and soundly rejected it.

> Then there's the problem with having 
> to quit whatever it is you're doing now to run off to Washington for 4 
> years (let's say you've just started a new business, and after 1.5 
> years are just now starting to get it to break even, what? do you close 
> it down for 4 years?)

Modern technology should allow very flexible scheduling.

Really, this is less complex than other personnel scheduling done on a
fairly regular basis.

Alternately, we could simply try to encourage people to participate and
make this a grass roots effort.  If it caught on, it might make a future
transition to this as a government participation model a little easier.
People would be used to the idea.

This really, is what Jefferson wanted: his natural aristocracy.

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