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Democracy: Beyond the ballot box
A voter shows her indelible ink mark after casting her ballot at Bhaderwah, during the second phase of India’s General Election this year. Photo/FILE
Posted Monday, November 2 2009 at 00:00
In effect, the contracted MPs would be their communities’ employees.
Think of it: If contracted MPs served their communities well, they would be well placed for further contracts.
They would have no loyalties except to the communities that employed them.
Obviously, it needs a lot more thought and discussion, but the idea of communities employing their representatives may be the seed of a system that works better than the “democracy” so few of us truly trust.
When all is said and done, it would bring the system closer to those that prevailed before the colonial era.
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