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…the Constitution doesn’t say every individual in the United States or every citizen is hereby granted or assured the right to habeas.
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales at the Senate Judiciary Committee (transcript not available online, see coverage by the San Francisco Chronicle and Los Angeles Times)
The best reaction to this attitude towards habeas corpus I can imagine [...]
ranked voting ...
Ranked voting systems permit the voter to select multiple candidates, indicating an order of preference.
Although instant runoff is more popular and Condorcet is the most “accurate”, I prefer approval voting as a pragmatic solution that is more supportive of third-party candidates. (I, personally, would love to vote Libertarian for representative legislators, without feeling I was “throwing my [...]
Show Me Democracy ...