How would you design a perfect civilizations government?

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How would you design a mars civilizations government? Who
would be in charge of what and how? In order to be safe and sane,
a better political system than we now have would be advisable. What kinds of improvements does our government need? What have modern sociology and civil engineering added to the wisdom of the founding fathers?

The_Dark_Knight; Good answer to start;
how would you implement a direct democracy and how would you guard against rigging, elitism, and oligarchy?

"I believe we can never design a perfect government, "

I agree, but that shouldn't stop us from trying.

Answer 1

I'd do so many EO's they could never get around the if they did I'd do even more till both houses gave up
1st90 days by ExOrder
End income taxes;fund the Gov right way,not on our backs
End tax paper work for citizens, not business
Balance budget,officials not paid till done
Regular people for elected officials no lawyers or rich
End lobbyists take money out of pollitics
Make graft illegal mandatory jail time
Close DOE save money
Take Gov out of schools PTA run save money
Set Iraq’s oil to pay for war,make exit plan with military
Prisoners work for jail costs not us save money
Foreign tax cheats pay tariff goods @retail every container
Register illegals get on tax roles, not us
After90 days by ExOrder
Build renewable power make millions of high wage jobs
Build electric powered roads millions more jobs
Thousands of jobs building electric cars&trucks
End dependence on foreign oil
Clean polluted water with power
Return America to 50% of world’s econmoy
Make Gov work like customer service in dept.stores EO's

Answer 2

Participatory democracy. Not a representative democracy.

Look at the stock market. We vote with our money for the companies we own stock in. Do badly, we vote you down, do well we vote you up. And we do it OFTEN and we keep track of what is GOING ON. We don't just tell our brokers to do what they think best. WE DO IT OURSELVES.
Clearly the technology is available. If you can do it for your investments why can't you do it for your government?

PS: I wish I had all the answers for you.. its a work in progress, but like I said, if you used a system like the stock market then it has some chance of success. How do prevent rigging, oligarcy etc, same way you prevent that in the stock market. It is probably not fool proof and like I said I don't have all the answers. However complete transparency may be a way to end all of these evils. If you knew people can see what you are doing would you still do it?

Answer 3

I believe we can never design a perfect government, however a democracy that is actually practiced the way we are taught, would be a great step forward. Now when we the people try to participate in the political game it is thought in political circles to be a crises of democracy.

Answer 4

I would make sure everyone spoke the same language and have the same political motive. If someone wanted to do there own thing, they couldn't participate. Before something got enacted, the people, you and me would really have a voice in it.

Answer 5

I would take all the current governments and do the exact opposite.