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With the US split as it is (40+/40+), both sides could banish people from the other side.
by knallfrosch 3y ago
With the US split as it is (40+/40+), both sides could banish people from the other side.
- blitzar 3y agoOr one side could attempt to banish people from the other side and instead hand power to the other side ...
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> With the US split as it is (40+/40+) The point is to expel demagogues, thereby incentivising compromise and not demonising a series of minorities. Athenians just banished the least popular person, assuming a quorum was met [1]. (I made up the one third threshold with limited thought.) [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostracism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostracism