♦ nivek ♦ Posted January 6, 2009 Posted January 6, 2009 Twelve angry menAdam Smith Institute by Dr. Eammon Butler "Should we elect our leaders by lot? There's an ad in the current edition of Standpoint magazine saying just that, and calling for a 'people's parliament' and 'citizens' juries' which apparently, we are told, make much better policy decisions than so-called experts. I've often said that I'd prefer to be governed by the first twelve people in the phone book than by 650 career politicians and hundreds more party placemen posing as peers. But only so long as none of them actually want to do the job. The problem in any system of government is not how to choose our leaders, but how to restrain them." (01/06/09) http://tinyurl.com/7dh8zh
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