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jfern
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« on: March 09, 2010, 01:24:28 AM »

I concur. The course of human history generally will be from representative to direct democracy, and nowhere in the United States is that transition more likely to begin than in California. We ought to do everything in our power to aid it.

We already tried this direct democracy thing. It didn't work out so well. Thanks to direct democracy, it takes a 2/3rds vote of the legislatur eto pass a budget, but putting bigotry into the Constitution only takes a simple majority of those who bother to show up for a given election. Prop. 13 benefits the old at the expense of the young. The list of failed Propositions goes on and on.
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jfern
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« Reply #1 on: March 09, 2010, 02:25:05 AM »

[quote author=Scam of God link=topic=112376.msg2397990#msg2397990
True, but no more of a problem than physical difficulties in attending Congress. In the first century of this nation's existence representatives would often have to come from all over the country on horseback or by coach, regardless of weather or climate conditions (or the Civil War or native strife). I hardly think it could be any worse than that.
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Well, it did take the 1st Congress a month get quorum.
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