From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Jan 21 2003 - 10:44:38 MST
--- avatar <avatar@renegadeclothing.com.au> wrote:
> In a more postmortal environment I'd propose a two part governmental
> system, part one being a house elected by proportional representation
> (with 6,000 members, each 0.1% = seat, i.e. one per million, allowing
> political swings in cultural/ethnic groupings to have a say). Part
> two being a powerful local government with one area seat per 1,000
> persons, i.e. 6 million worldwide - with the ability to form loose
> coalitions - this is a high rate of representation, with a
> representative body about half the size of a Western police force,
> appropriate for a society with less violence and more cultural whims.
> Executive power within the proportional house would probably be best
> served with something close to the American system (seperate head and
> judiciary) but with a much weaker executive.
It seems you don't understand the American system. Weakening the
executive would only retard the checks and balances of the American
system, leading to a judiciary that is held hostage to majoritarian
tyranny in the legislature.
Executive power will crop up naturally. If it is not the President,
then it will be the Speaker of the House or the Senate Majority Leader.
People will always look for one person to be ultimately responsible.
>
> Solar system government? Yes, but decentralized, with very powerful
> and very small array of local governments (including coalitions) and
> strict rules about freedom to leave zones and freedom to pass through
> zones. Freedom to enter permanently might be subject to majority
> agreement or unaminous blocking. Universal base level human and
> sentient rights ought to apply. Issues such as allocation of
> virtuality resources (outside of the individual's brain) would be
> matters for the Solar government.
So: no property rights, no rights of free transit (which are different
from immigration rights) with internal passports much like the old
Soviet Union.
>From what you describe, I would name this solar government the Solar
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
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Mike Lorrey
"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
- Gen. John Stark
"Pacifists are Objectively Pro-Fascist." - George Orwell
"Treason doth never Prosper. What is the Reason?
For if it Prosper, none Dare call it Treason..." - Ovid
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