Abstract In free societies, people can make products and offer services that compete and choose the products and services that best meet their needs, yet the p

Abstract In free societies, people can make products and offer services that compete and choose the products and services that best meet their needs, yet the principles of open competition and free choice are limited by the representative democratic systems to an infrequent choice between the campaign promises of a few candidates. This paper argues that the democratic system can be improved by organising legislation as alternative, complete bodies of legislation that citizens choose between. Comparable to an open source operating system, legislation can be copied and altered or forked to make new bodies of legislation. Instead of electing representatives, each citizen supports one body of legislation and the one with the most support is enforced. New legislation is put forward as a new body of legislation, not as an individual proposal and there is no formal legislative process. Citizens can change their decision at any time and legal authority will pass to a new body of legislation if it gains more support than any other. While this legislation will be in force, the people that made it will not be in power, as power remains equally distributed among all eligible citizens.