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Don's avatar

Holding officials accountable to the public is a fine idea. The U.S. system is all promise, no follow-through. I wish the citizens of Nova Scotia all the best in their effort to create a government "Of the people" instead of "Of the corporations." Contractual agreements should help matters greatly, although somebody needs to draw up those contracts. I would expect that after some experimentation, many of the articles/clauses could become standardized boilerplate; the citizens just need to decide what terms they want. Go for it!

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Kalle Pihlajasaari's avatar

I like to think about what sort of a system will be in place 2000-10'000 years from now. The present system is not going to be on the list as it is too destructive. So my hope is to find the ideas that could form a SELF STABLISING system of government with maximum local content, near total OpenSource and perhaps a form of proxy voting where the citizen gives their proxy to the champion of their choice and he has only a single personal vote plus all his proxy votes. If he does not vote according to his constituents then they work on the only working solution of the prisoners dilemma, offer to cooperate unless stabbed in the back, this means that the citizen simply has to withdraw his proxy with very short notice, say a day or two and select a new champion or vote in person.

This way Direct democracy is a fail-safe and the goal could be Consensus Government.

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