An elementary school class wishes to choose its leader,
or an adult organization wishes to choose its leader. On a plain piece of paper, each voter writes
the name of a favored person, and all such pieces of paper are collected and
tabulated. There may or may have been
preliminary campaigning. But eventually
some leader emerges from all the voting.
This is pure democracy in action.
It was a popular method in early American history.
The Founders put their greatest confidence in district
representatives to become the foundations of all government. Contrast that with
the degenerate partisan system that has superimposed itself upon us as our
districts became too large and unmanageable.
The Founders saw these reps as second level voters who would take over
all governing as soon as elected, and collegiately choose all of the
four-year-term Constitutional officers of the federation. We-the-people elect
reps to govern the system, after which we should bow out and allow the reps to
govern the system. We will evaluate
their performances every two years.
Otherwise, how can responsibility be delineated if we continue to meddle
in what they should be doing?
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