03-02-2018, 04:18 AM | #141 |
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Re: Exotic Governmental/Legal Systems
This can be read as either the courts or the plaintiffs employing the police. I think that was the confusion. Though for the record, I found the suggestion perfectly clear. And it is very Liberterian / Duncanite.
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03-02-2018, 07:07 AM | #142 | |
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Re: Exotic Governmental/Legal Systems
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At best people who can't afford to fund the court, or didn't think they needed to if it's a pay in advance rather than on demand system, don't get access to justice.
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03-02-2018, 09:15 AM | #143 |
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Re: Exotic Governmental/Legal Systems
Somewhat reminiscent of the system used during the Icelandic Commonwealth.
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03-02-2018, 11:28 AM | #144 | |
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03-02-2018, 11:31 AM | #145 |
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Re: Exotic Governmental/Legal Systems
I was tickled by the idea of government by judges (without going Megacity One) for some recent world-building game, but I couldn't wrap my head around who would be creating the legislation for the judges to judge on.
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03-02-2018, 11:32 AM | #146 |
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Re: Exotic Governmental/Legal Systems
In other words, "my lawyer is this bunch of guys with guns". It's a totally realistic situation, but it's not really a government.
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03-02-2018, 12:43 PM | #147 |
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03-02-2018, 02:02 PM | #148 |
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Re: Exotic Governmental/Legal Systems
No society can avoid having an Omelas girl somewhere in the cracks. So the question becomes how to minimize that aspect.
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03-02-2018, 02:45 PM | #149 |
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Re: Exotic Governmental/Legal Systems
Depends on what we mean. Did we specify, "institutional arrangement, with something vaguely resembling consensus even if it is the consensus that anything else would be worse", or did we just mean,"Way of keeping order in a given society and marshaling it's combined efforts whatever those might be." Does there have to be laws or a bureaucracy or anything like that? At minimum almost all governments are a bunch of guys with guns though there are some weird oddities(no I do not know how to explain Andorra but it is small enough not to need guys with guns and has France and Spain on either side both of which have plenty of guys with guns). But I would agree that just having guys with guns is not interesting enough for the post.
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03-02-2018, 02:55 PM | #150 |
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Re: Exotic Governmental/Legal Systems
There are two approaches. The first is that laws are made by some kind of popular democracy of the members of the community. The second is that that the laws are made by the judges themselves with a hefty helping of precedent and tradition.
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