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Re:The Government’s Addiction to ‘Secret Law’ by nitrogen on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @03:39PM (#12737953)
I would like to see a system of government that is similarly granular to your suggestion, but on technical lines rather than geographical. I tend to agree with very, very few of my neighbors on some issues, so rather than having to form a geographically local coalition, maybe better representation can be achieved by allowing the like-minded to choose representation across geographic boundaries, or to choose different representatives for different categories.

While we're at it, could we make this hypothetical government's legislature use a fractional (or maybe one-citizen-one-vote) tally, with representatives acting as proxies that individuals could override for specific votes?

Re:The Government’s Addiction to ‘Secret Law’ by clock_tower on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @08:10PM (#12739854)
One thing that the Ottoman Empire did well (although not as legislature): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millet_%28Ottoman_Empire%29