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Old 01-30-2018, 01:55 AM   #35
whswhs
 
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Lawrence, KS
Default Re: Exotic Governmental/Legal Systems

Friedrich Hayek proposed a different sort of bicameral legislature: One house would pass only laws regulating the general rights and obligations of citizens; the other would pass rules for the conduct of governmental activities. An interesting nuance was that revenues were the business of the first house, expenditures of the second.

Another of Hayek's ideas was to have a body of legislators who gained new members, each year, by a vote of the people who had turned some specified age (I think it might have been 40) in that year. Everyone would get to vote for that house ONCE and never again, and the people they voted for would have, at least, very long terms of office.
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