From: Eric Watt Forste (arkuat@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Feb 18 1997 - 13:27:43 MST
Robin Hanson writes:
>You could now run for office on a platform that if elected, you
>will replace yourself with a randomly selected member of your
>electorate. Since people do not now run on such platforms, I
>suspect that voters do not in fact trust such a random person to
>do as well.
This is bad evidence, because legislators cannot replace themselves
with whomever they like. In the US federal House of Representatives,
a legislator can resign at will, but the replacement is chosen by
a special election called by the executive authority of the state
from which the legislator was elected. Similar schemes are in effect
in most other polities with representative legislatures.
-- Eric Watt Forste ++ arkuat@pobox.com ++ http://www.pobox.com/~arkuat/ Q: What is the meaning of life? A: You're soaking in it!
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