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Well what's your proposed new format? If it relies on humans not wishing to grandstand, then I'm not optimistic. If if divides up the 6000 into smaller numbers
by iguy 7y ago
Well what's your proposed new format? If it relies on humans not wishing to grandstand, then I'm not optimistic.
If if divides up the 6000 into smaller numbers, maybe with some hierarchical structure... then that's not one body of 6000.
A few hundred seems like the biggest room in which you can have something like a debate. And perhaps more importantly, many of them can know each many of the others, so that they can talk directly outside in the hallways, make deals, figure out who will support what.
- FussyZeus 7y agoI don't know. Designing governments isn't generally my forte. I'm just saying that "we can't have more representatives because nothing will get discussed correctly in our current format" is limiting for no real reason. It's entirely logical if you change the size of the Governing body, you'd have to change some other things, too. The framers were smart enough to know their vision for the Government wouldn't be the best forever, or even the best a few decades from when they designed it. It was designed to be replaceable and update-able as needed.
- iguy 7y agoOK, but isn't it the other way around? A re-design may be a good idea, and a particular design may imply that you want a different size.