Posted on 05/31/2020 10:47:03 AM PDT by wanganghi
So right now, United States is a representative democracy. People elect their congress to make, alter, abolish, or to do anything related to the bill. The problem for me is that, congress can make false promises, get pressured by small minority of people, simply vote for the wrong person, and so on.
I propose that U.S. should have a semi-direct democracy system similar to Switzerland except the votes will be based on cities where ever the mayors have jurisdiction. If majority of people in that city votes for a law, then it would count as one vote for that city (just like you representing the city). People needs to be a citizen of that city in order to vote. If you want to vote in another city, you have to be a citizen of another city to vote. Becoming a citizen of another city would be like transferring to another job. To become a citizen, you have to be integrated with United States culture and life although it would be up to States and Cities discretion, similar to Swiss way of becoming citizen of Switzerland.
I did not propose an outright direct democracy via total voters themselves, because we have too many people. In addition, it wouldn't represent every cities and city and counties in the United States, because if far more people living in one city outweighs other cities in the state, then it is like that one city is controlling the state and other cities cannot do anything.
What are your thoughts?
We were established as a Constitutional Republic.
Zot!
Wikipedia says “Federal Republic.”
I didn't read further after that statement. AMERICA IS A REPUBLIC!!! At least it once was.
IATZ
Amercan constitution is a great document. Don’t engage in theory over things that are inferior.
Throwing out one democracy (or democratic republic for the hair splitters) and replace it with another one, you need to figure out what's going to be different in the new one.
Democracy is the worst for of government, except for all the other forms of government.
‘Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…’ Winston S Churchill, 11 November 1947
I would need more information.
But this seems like some bullsh1t Hobbesian choice. Like lots of the polls.
Buh Bye.
I think this is one of the stupidest vanities I’ve ever seen.
You need to place the ganghi on the table and just back away. If you like the Swiss system so much go live there. The Constitution stands as the greatest organizational document of any society bar none. Your standing here at the FreeRepublic, maybe not so much.
would be great if they would stick to the constitution
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Now, good bye (I see you’ve been banned :) )
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Now, good bye (I see you’ve been banned :) )
Where do you live?
Goodbye Troll!
My thoughts?
Sounds like a really bad idea. Back to you.
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