My old friend and comrade on Democracy...............
Electronic and Athenian Democracy
Paul Cockshott
Weakness of conventional systems
. Power in hands of politicians not ordinary folk
. Parliaments unrepresentative in terms of sex, race
and class when compared to population
. Major issues like taxation, war and peace, are
decided without reference to public opinion
. Model of democracy has been the US constitution.
More to follow - however I thought that this titbit may provoke discussion ( then again )