Posted by
Team Turk on Monday, October 30, 2006 6:40:43 PM
Henry Lamb discusses
representative democracy.
There is a reason why America's founders created a representative government, rather than a direct democracy. Representative government makes public-policy sausage that requires a critical selection process for the ingredients, grinds the ingredients extensively through legislative debate, and produces a product that is more likely to be digestible.
Direct democracy, on the other hand, uses large chunks of ingredients, often selected by special-interest groups, rarely ground at all, and then forced into the diet of all the people who have no choice but to suffer the consequences.