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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
It's been stated that a democracy, in theory, only works when the constituency is numbered in the few hundred thousands... not in millions or billions. Based on current events, I believe it...
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Not even that, I suspect. The direct democracy of 5th century (BC) Athens, for example, never had more than 30,000 people eligible to vote. Once you get into the hundreds of thousands, you really need to start moving to deciding issues via elected representatives, which is the system that's used in all western nations today.