While I agree with you for the most part, there are any number of
popular ways to vote ourselves into our own destruction, in both
political directions. I referred to such a court as a BRAKE, not a
reverse gear. Thus while it would prevent us from driving ourselves off
cliffs, we could easily override if the need were compelling enough to
warrant passage of amendments to the constitution.
I especially like a recent amendment passed in Washington State which
says that the legislature only needs a simple majority to LOWER taxes,
but must have a two thirds majority to RAISE taxes. Rather inspired
legislation, IMHO.
If a superdemocracy were developed like I proposed, it would only be a
few steps toward experimenting with or even adopting across the board
greater levels of indvidual or mini collective sovreignty as individuals
or groups may wish. In such a future, one of the first applications of
AIs would probably be as legal researchers/advisers to wade through
megatons of laws, cases, etc. for individual sovreigns who do not have
the time to waste.
> About the lawyers,. no comment needed.
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