>Any form of government that depends on an unbroken line of "good people" in power will fail They all depend on this. There is no set-it-and-forget-it algorith

>Any form of government that depends on an unbroken line of "good people" in power will fail They all depend on this. There is no set-it-and-forget-it algorithm that you can put in place that self-perpetuates good government. There are "people" at every point along the chain of any government including those writing its laws, enforcing them, interpreting laws in court and in many bureaucratic institutions that may or may not ignore these rules or undermine them. I think every system has a life-cycle like an organism, and some aspects of degradation and corruption are almost unavoidable in practice if not in principle.