religion/culture/politics

[Eilonnwy]

The majority of people are Christian. You need to show Christian values to be elected.

Isn't this an example of representative government?

We are a representative government.

Uh, I agree?

Blasphemy!

[Violet]

Meritocracy: ability in control. I can't tell you how much happier I would be... to be flown in a plane with a 100% chance of an ace pilot... rather than to be flown in a plane with no idea how skilled the pilot is (edit: esp. if my pilot was voted in because of how he looks, and what he believes... esp. if that was in life after death )

Ahhh, but then isn't a meritocracy just control by the test makers? Look back in history when "literacy" tests were used to prevent black people from voting.

How do you measure political ability anyway? SAT scores? I've known plenty of intelligent people who FAIL hard at life due to a lack of connection to the real world. We could use MMPI scores but a smart person could research how to answer to get a high score. WOW duels? yeah that would be awesome!

Rhizo

So we would teach those dark-skins to read

Lol, i wish Of course... a good rogue would always win

That is the thing though: a great deal more research is needed to now what to test. I would certainly hope that those in charge were very intelligent, so probably IQ would be checked. But aside from that: it will take a great deal of discussion with very smart people before everything with the system is ready. And even then, it will probably require some future adjustments.

[theVOID]

We shouldn't test anyone, each man who has a right to vote should also have a right to run for public office. It should be up to democratic consensus to determine if the person was the most suitable for office and as such we should aim for a higher standard of education and greatly improved critical thinking skills as opposed to a standard imposed by authority to determine their ability to govern.

If the people made a bad decision then so be it, hope they learn from their mistakes but do not take any right of choice away from them, including imposing a standard of candidacy.

[Violet]

Some people are not up to the task of ruling a country, but everyone deserves to have their opinions heard (At least initially), and their opinions should matter. That is why the government I proposed has many different types of government all working together to prevent abuse of power. (Democracy, Hereditary <accepts adoption> Oligarchy, and most importantly: Meritocracy.)

It truly is an almost perfect system (Aka, there are no major flaws present)... although implementing it would be difficult without the money to support it in the first place.

The people can't be allowed allowed to make all of the rules in the country because they often do make bad decisions. If you look at America... can you tell me how quickly they learn from their mistakes? However, ours is not an indirect democracy (i.e. that of america), where a group votes for a single representative to represent them... Our is a direct democracy. The people's votes are their own to cast, on all things.

There is a lot of specifics to the system that keep it balanced perfectly... and they would take me a great deal of time to write. If you've that much of an interest, I will rewrite the manifestos from my notes. It won't be as amusing as "The Identity"... but it will be as interesting, or more.

But I'll only put that on the forum if enough people want me to. Otherwise it would be a great deal of pointless work in the worker's opinion.