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[fyfe]

...objective?
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I have reached the conclusion that democracy is a system that gives the majority the power to impose its will. That constitutions can't stop that, because the majority only fallows the rules if it wants to. And that each individual not the majority of individuals within a country should govern their own affairs.

So I came up with a system of Government that only gives the power to govern their own affairs to individuals. Essentially, it is my understanding that police enforce the law because its their duty, tax collectors collect taxes because it their duty, and appeals courts protect defendants rights because its their duty. So I thought why not have a base set of unchangeable laws govern society? Here's how it would work...

You have Eight unchangeable laws: no invasion of person, no invasion of privacy, no fraud, no interference with the property rights of others, you must pay sales taxes (+service taxes) equal to the lowest amount paid by other citizens (to force uniformity), that are written for the purposes of policement, and defense by the central Government, or the payment of education (only assistance based), recreation, or transportation by local Governments (To disallow the expansion of Gov.), no child abuse or neglect, no animal abuse, cruelty or neglect, no negligence contributing to the harm of other people or their property, without their consent. Then as the definition of these laws evolve, new regulations would be written within the scope of them (vandalism didn't exist 200 yrs ago). Then a council would be randomly selected to write penalties for the new regulations (penalties written for reasons besides retribution would be invalid, so would those unwritten by the council). Also every year a council would be selected to put to a vote what taxes should be to fund police and military.

Appeals courts would also enforce limits on police, and courts: They would be 1) Every person has a right to a trial by a jury and 2) Police cannot use excessive force (rules determined by a randomly selected council)

...And for 6 and 7 there would be a special court process to keep to determine "abuse" (its vague) to keep it from exceeding its boundaries with a super-majority of jurors not only determining guilt but also whether a what happened should be considered abuse.

[osryd]

Spoken like a true libertarian! BRAVO!

[bardoul]

If you knew what you were talking about you know that the USA is not a democracy.....we are a republic. A democracy dies the moment the voters realize they can vote themselves $$$$ from the public til. Everything you discribe are already laws on the books NOW. Someone else already came up with it.