and the Madness of Crowds.
I'll bet you'd have work very hard to find anyone who does not think that Universal Suffrage, the right of all adult citizens of a country to vote, is an obvious and undeniable truth, beyond criticism. I demur. To say nothing of the current Democrat attitude that no one should be forced to actually identify themselves as voting-eligible when they head to the polls.
The American revolutionaries who coined "No taxation without representation" certainly did not mean to include a lot of men, any women, slaves...or children, for that matter. They were not in favor of democracy. (I wonder on what grounds we justifiy withholding the vote until age 18 or 21? Is it not offensive to our youth and discriminatory?) Were I in charge, the number of eligible voters would be much smaller.
In the Republic of Ex Cathedra, people would be visitors, residents (temporary or permanent), citizens, and electors. And the Constitution would recognize that difference. For one, not every citizen would be an elector, even once they reached legal majority.
No human group, even the one I'd choose to do the voting, escapes human flaw and the human condition. It would not be a means to avoid trouble or even disaster. These things happen willy-nilly. But it would try to avoid certain kinds of disasters and catastrophe. Know wh'am sayin'?
I'll bet you'd have work very hard to find anyone who does not think that Universal Suffrage, the right of all adult citizens of a country to vote, is an obvious and undeniable truth, beyond criticism. I demur. To say nothing of the current Democrat attitude that no one should be forced to actually identify themselves as voting-eligible when they head to the polls.
The American revolutionaries who coined "No taxation without representation" certainly did not mean to include a lot of men, any women, slaves...or children, for that matter. They were not in favor of democracy. (I wonder on what grounds we justifiy withholding the vote until age 18 or 21? Is it not offensive to our youth and discriminatory?) Were I in charge, the number of eligible voters would be much smaller.
In the Republic of Ex Cathedra, people would be visitors, residents (temporary or permanent), citizens, and electors. And the Constitution would recognize that difference. For one, not every citizen would be an elector, even once they reached legal majority.
No human group, even the one I'd choose to do the voting, escapes human flaw and the human condition. It would not be a means to avoid trouble or even disaster. These things happen willy-nilly. But it would try to avoid certain kinds of disasters and catastrophe. Know wh'am sayin'?
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