07-18-2018, 07:57 AM | #381 |
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Re: Exotic Governmental/Legal Systems
AFAIK their setup was completely partyless. Parties came later as a loophole and I'm not sure if there's any constitutional support for them at all.
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07-18-2018, 08:18 AM | #382 |
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07-18-2018, 08:18 AM | #383 |
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As a non-American I'm not an expert, but both their houses are geographically based - but they're based on different geographical boundaries. I believe.
The Canadian parlimentary system was set up somewhat along these lines, with the House of Commons being geographical, and the Senators being appointed for life by the current Prime Minister (although with traditional emphasis on equal geographic representation in the Senate). This results in the Senate having a bias to the previous PMs party at the beginning of a new government, and a bias to the current PMs party after a few terms. But now the House of Commons is geographic but dominated by party lines, and our Senate is losing party affiliations; no organizational structures survives centuries without change.
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07-18-2018, 08:25 AM | #384 |
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In the same way as jury nullification is covered by anti-double-jeopardy protection and protection of juries from being arbitrarily punished for their decision. I.e. by indirect consequence rather than as part of the original blueprint of the government in the canonical text. Right?
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07-18-2018, 08:37 AM | #385 | |
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Yes, both houses are based on geography: every congressman has a state they belong to, and people from outside that state have next to no say in determining who that person is (other than aid in campaigning). House representatives belong to specific areas within the state. For example, Paul Ryan is from Wisconsin, but he's especially from the area south east of Milwakee. The voters in Milwakee itself don't get to vote for him, they voted in Gwen Moore. The exact alignments of these districts is up to the state legislatures. Senators represent an entire state, and there are only two per state. In Wisconsin that's Ron Johnson and Tammy Baldwin. Everyone in the state got to vote for or against both of these senators. So senators are still localized, but they are less localized than representatives. In any case, Both houses are very similar in terms of power. They were designed to be out of sync with each other and be split on issues that are very close. The senate has a touch more power, if only because they run conformation hearings. In contrast, the system proposed has two houses with very different powers intentionally separated instead of mirrored.
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07-18-2018, 10:44 AM | #386 |
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A reminder to keep current, real world, politics to someplace else. They are a very good way to get a thread shut down. Thank you. </Moderator>
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07-18-2018, 01:04 PM | #387 |
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Re: Exotic Governmental/Legal Systems
Each candidate drinks a half-pint of vodka and smashes it into the fireplace. If any candidates are still standing process is repeated. So on ad-infintum until there is only one candidate. He is granted absolute power. With the sole caveat that he has to drink a half-pint of vodka before each decree.
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07-18-2018, 01:09 PM | #388 | |
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I suspect most of them felt it was more an unrelated side issue - that parties weren't necessary for their ideas to work but weren't a problem either.
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07-18-2018, 01:17 PM | #389 | |
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07-18-2018, 01:17 PM | #390 | |
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I can almost see this system evolving though. There are after all those traces of Indoeuropean traditions of considering any important issue at two councils, one sober and one drunk.
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