Thursday 28 November 2013

Valid states use proportional representation

There is no valid government which is not democratic and it is clear that the first-past-the-post system is not democratic. Governments which do not use a fully-proportional system cannot be said to be true and valid governments because they are not democratic. Democracy is not merely a nice thing to have it is a moral imperative and to restrict democracy is to restrict the rights of the people just as other forms of tyranny damage rights. For a state to be democratically accountable is a moral requirement and this means that states which derive their authority from fptp are invalid. Fptp is not a true democratic system and so then for a state to attempt to use this system is a violation of rights. States which use first-past-the-post are violating the rights of their citizens. There is no moral and valid state which uses fptp… to be valid a state can only use a proportional system.

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