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jaguar · 12-31-2001, 04:45 PM

Idealy?
Debateable.
Look at for instance Calssical Athenian Democracy. Over 6000 citivens had to be present at a meeting for any laws to be apssed, there would be debate, and either consensus would be reached or it owuld go to a vote, juries often had 200 or 500 memebers, a much more participatory decmoracy than our currant competitve eliteist model (As defined by Models of Deocracy - Stanford Press).
By wanting the government entirley out of your life you also lose a degree of control of it.

12-31-2001, 04:45 PM	#12
jaguar whig Join Date: Apr 2001 Posts: 5,075	Idealy? Debateable. Look at for instance Calssical Athenian Democracy. Over 6000 citivens had to be present at a meeting for any laws to be apssed, there would be debate, and either consensus would be reached or it owuld go to a vote, juries often had 200 or 500 memebers, a much more participatory decmoracy than our currant competitve eliteist model (As defined by Models of Deocracy - Stanford Press). By wanting the government entirley out of your life you also lose a degree of control of it. __________________ Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Twain