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59999 Re: Climate Change
   decomp ...once upon a time we had popular elections for the house of...
ribit   POPE   05 Jun 2012
11:05 PM
59962 Re: Climate Change
   Actually, it was because business and land owners were the ones who...
micro   POPE   05 Jun 2012
8:32 PM

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Re: Climate Change

By: Decomposed in POPE
Tue, 05 Jun 12 8:07 PM
Msg. 59952 of 65535
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The founders, btw, originally intended that voting be restricted to land-owners. The goal, I expect, was two-fold: To ensure that decisions and candidates would be decided upon

o By fairly successful people, and
o By individuals with a financial interest in the community.

I think they had the right idea, though they should have added a control to help those who didn't qualify to either get representation via some other channel or qualify for future elections.




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