On 3/7/06, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote:
Obviously, the larger and more contentious the
community, the bigger the
challenge of consensus. But we cannot undertake such a debate without
an open analysis of parliamentarianism's defects. Such a system
encourages the forming of parties that will promote and protect
particular policies, and who will be happy to have their POV succeed by
a bare majority. It leads to the tyranny of the majority.
Parties generaly require a representive democracy. What we have is
closer to the athian system.
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geni