On Vote Comments

There's a side of our voting system which I find grossly overlooked, and the more people become dissatisfied with their representative bodies, the more overlooked it is.

Force used to rule, and then divine powers, laced with those atavistic sources of legitimacy, crystallized also the path of consent; fighting tyranny was the primary reason why a (not even so much) democratic voting rule was adopted in ancient Greece. Pretty much everyone admits that the democratic voting rule is meant to put excessive power in check.
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