12-16-2005, 02:12 PM
Ghostiger,Dec 16 2005, 05:39 AM Wrote:1 Govt views that are median for the populace majority rather than the entire populace.
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2 Govt that is dead locked.
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Your point 1 makes little sense. The median for the populace majority is a best case condition. You can't please the entire populace in any majority rule system unless the entire populace agree on a given policy. If a policy to dig a new ship channel passes by 56% for 42 %against and 2% indifferent, you certainly aren't pleasing the entire populace.
Your point 2 was part of the Constitution's design, which concept was, I think, based in the British Parliamentary system. Better to dead lock than pass a policy with too strong (assumed rational) opposition.
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In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete