Monday 10 December 2012

Property rights require proportional representation

Government is required to safeguard our property rights but government must be democratic otherwise it has no mandate. This means that government (and property rights) can only exist if it is elected via proportional representation... since fptp is not democratic and does not provide a mandate to the government. Without government there are no property rights but without pr there is no government because there is no legitimacy... so we need pr to get property rights. Government without (true) democracy has no mandate and is invalid but fptp doesn't work so cannot be said to be democratic and will provide no mandate. Government under fptp is invalid so we can say that pr is the only means by which there can be (government and) property rights. We cannot have property rights if there is not proportional representation.

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