Interesting topic. I wish I was here when it was active. I agree with Anakrino in that those pursuing the "quantitative" approach are not much...
While I agree that there were people at the Constitutional Convention who were championing the will of the people (like James Madison), there were...
I agree that a republic ultimately must do what the public wants in order to be legitimate, but the original ideas of what to do can come from...
Human psychology makes this almost inevitable in any form of centralized government, especially as the area being governed gets bigger: we are...
This is a good question. Many of the discussions here seem to be like arguing over what type of tires to put on a car when the problem is that...
Yes, Libya and Egypt threw out their dictators, but it is yet to be seen if they actually will now have a government that works any better than...
It looks to me that corruption tends to increase the longer a person is in office. So until we have better ways to deter or uncover corruption,...
I think Kilgram is at least on the right track. Reading the notes of James Madison and others on the Constitutional Convention, it is clear that...
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