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Old 01-29-2018, 12:04 PM   #24
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Default Re: Exotic Governmental/Legal Systems

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Originally Posted by The Colonel View Post
Have we had demarcy yet? Specifically the pattern where being a parliamentarian is like jury duty to which you are drafted for a year (or even a specific bill)? Perhaps you have a non-voting house of experts - selected as pre-eminent in their fields - who prepare legislation, which is then voted on by the demarchs - thus giving the state both technical expertise and popular consent without developing a professional political class...
#1 isn't so dissimilar from that. Though appointing them to specific bills is a new twist, and the proposing house of experts is interesting. You still need someone to explain the bills to the jurors though. Otherwise they become nothing but a rubber stamp. Your professional political class might end up looking like lawyers who argue the merits of passing or not passing a bill against one another. Which is still a cool setup.

30: The reigning monarch adopts an heir who he trains to the position. This was very common among the roman emperors.
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