A few weeks ago The Economist did a special report on government in California. It was all interesting but this one paragraph from one article summed it up nicely. Direct democracy: Origin of the species. "Direct democracy in California is thus an aberration. It has no safeguards against Madison’s tyranny of the majority. It recognises no saucer that might cool the passions of the people. Above all, it is not a system intended to contain minority factions. Instead, it encourages special interests to wage war by ballot measure until one lobby prevails and imposes its will on all. Madison and Hamilton would have been horrified."
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