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tinfoilinfor2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-17-06 11:35 PM Original message |
What if the House and Senate consisted of ordinary citizens, like a jury? |
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shraby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-17-06 11:45 PM Response to Original message |
1. Orrrrr, have a jury of 12 citizens who are rotated |
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tinfoilinfor2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-17-06 11:49 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Sounds suspiciously like oversight to me. |
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shraby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-17-06 11:51 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Oversight by the proper people...drawn from a hat |
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dweller (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-17-06 11:57 PM Response to Original message |
4. fine with me, just one caveat |
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FloridaPat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-18-06 12:25 AM Response to Original message |
5. There was a story a couple years about about the 13th amendment |
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tinfoilinfor2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-18-06 02:31 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. It was lost because of the civil war? |
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FloridaPat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-18-06 04:05 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. Easy to do in times of war. |
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wwcsmd (49 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-18-06 12:38 AM Response to Original message |
6. I've been saying this for years too! |
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Xithras (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-18-06 02:46 PM Response to Original message |
8. That's what the House of Representatives was supposed to be. |
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tinfoilinfor2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-18-06 02:57 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. mmm, no wonder it is self destructing... |
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FloridaPat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-18-06 04:07 PM Response to Reply #8 |
11. The "common man" in 1776 was the male landed gentry. |
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Xithras (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-18-06 04:40 PM Response to Reply #11 |
14. In 1776, most Americans were landowners. |
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Bill McBlueState (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-18-06 04:09 PM Response to Reply #8 |
12. I don't like that vision of the Senate |
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Xithras (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-18-06 04:59 PM Response to Reply #12 |
17. I don't know that I agree with that. |
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Bill McBlueState (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-18-06 05:28 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. about states interests |
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Xithras (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-18-06 07:42 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. But that's where the bicameral aspect comes into play. |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-18-06 04:13 PM Response to Original message |
13. If citizins were picked randomly f/ 1 year, the Congressional Aides |
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OPERATIONMINDCRIME (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-18-06 04:40 PM Response to Original message |
15. My God Would That Be Dangerous. Hell No LOL |
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the_spectator (932 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-18-06 04:46 PM Response to Original message |
16. A neat idea. I think some ancient Greek cities did things like this - |
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