If Only The Romans

[Anomalocaris]

Chuck, you never did answer my questions as to whom you'd assign such power, or the basis on which it would be exercised. You're repeating your earlier objection without answering my points embodied in those questions.

I do not have any specific all purpose answers. But the general answer is a group of people who are well versed in the details of social structure and interaction in their own societies, well versed in the details of the history of their own governance, has good grounding in the range of governance and social interactions elsewhere in the world, and have had demonstrated considerable aptitude in getting things done in different levels of leadership position.

You may call them well educated bureaucrats or professional and highly qualified civil servants if you like.

Also, these are people more closely resembling who actually rules china than who nominally, AND actually, rules the U.S.

To the inevitable objection of who watches the watchers: Have only the watchers themselves watch the watchers is a necessary and inevitable consequence of having an well organized society in which only those who know what they are doing actually dabble in the doing. This is why you don't get to vote on who wins the Nobel prize in physics.

To the objection of potential for abuse, yes, there is. But it is greater, certain, and continuous abuse to allow the unqualified an equal voice as the qualified.