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No Town Hall Meeting
Quality Press, August, 1992
No Town Hall Meeting
Quality Press, August, 1992
Forget about the concept of a town hall meeting to decide public policy. How about this instead?
In Ancient Greece, to prevent idiotic statesmen from passing idiotic laws upon the people, lawmakers were asked to introduce all new laws while standing on a platform with a rope around their neck. If the law passed, the rope was removed. If it failed, the platform was removed.
