On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 1:04 PM, lukhman_khan<lukhman_k...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> It was ever thus. The trick is not to restrict the franchise, but >> restrict the concentration of power that results from voting and the >> pandering to popular taste that is a consequence. > Makes a lot of sense to me. > How does one go about doing just that? Classically by pitting various parts of the government against each other, and making some parts of it not beholden to the lumpenproletariat (usually an independent appointed judiciary.) Alternatively by setting things up such that no one group can get and hold power,requiring ineffectual coalition governments. What'd be really cool, IMO, is to allow for competition in provision of government as a service and allow people to "vote with their feet." That would require nearly complete elimination of immigration and emigration controls and existing monopoly governments are unlikely to do that. -- Charles
