The Liberty Manifesto

What is wrong with Representative Democracy is the fact of representation itself.  It introduces a cost of agency, because all representative agents are conflicted between acting on behalf of their constituents versus acting in their own self interests, which are often in contention.

A plebiscitary is a government without representatives, where the electorate themselves vote on issues of importance, rather than leaving it up to a representative to hopefully act on their behalf on a litany of political issues.

A simple majority is agreement by just barely over half those polled: 50+1%. A supermajority is significantly higher, often 66% (2 to 1 majority) or even 75% (3 to 1). The word democracy literally means government by the people, so the more people are actually in agreement on governing policies, the more democratic those policies are.

What is more dangerous than letting a supermajority of citizens decide for themselves what should be their laws, is letting a minority of special interests manipulate the government, creating legislation beneficial only to that minority, at the expense of us all.

Minority rights are enshrined in the Bill of Rights which act as a check on the power of government, the power of the majority that (should) directs that government.  Inalienable rights are defendable in court against unconstitutional acts of governments, already, and will continue to be under plebiscitary democracy.  More robust judicial review prior to proposed bills becoming laws can help to eliminate the costly inefficiencies of having to challenge unconstitutional legislation after it has been passed.  No conceivable majority would be able to vote away the inalienable rights of any minority.

They can spend their time on things far more productive than trying to divine the public will on various un-prioritized  issues and enacting costly legislation to address these issues.

The voting system being promoted here would be accessible on modern smart phones, would require 3 point biometric identification login and would have end-to-end encryption, and this more secure than what is now being used for world wide financial transactions.  Additionally, a block-chain style of database backup could be used, keeping the entire vote-chain copied to millions of devices (like with bitcoin).

All laws created before plebiscitary democracy would have to be ratified by the new supermajority of plebiscitarians, because far too many laws now have been passed by minority interests which the majority did not support and would not support in a plebiscitary democracy.

If the poor people comprise more than 66% of the population, by plebiscitary democracy they could vote for the tax burden to be shifted to wealth, those succeeding the most from society.

Public servants can be appointed by lottery of qualified applicants for limited terms, to operate existing agencies and future ones created by plebiscitary democracy.

They can't.

Primary legislation are Acts of government, laws created by governments.  Secondary legislation is interpreting how best to effect primary legislation.  In plebiscitary democracy, primary legislation is passed only by supermajority, but secondary legislation can be generated by qualified public servants.

 

Plebiscitary democracy can put an end to this corruption by having civil service appointments made by lottery of qualified candidates rather than representatives appointing their financial supporters

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