Delegatory Democracy

Premise

The person that best represents an individual is themself. But the legislative process is too time consuming for most people to invest the necessary time.

Delegatory Democracy balances this by allowing each citizen to keep or delegate their vote to any other citizen. Delegates can also keep or delegate their votes to any other citizen including other delegates.

The more votes someone has, the more votes they can cast.

Version: 001 Technical Research Spike

The purpose of this version is to inform the technical research spike's requirements by going through the process of defining a minimal model.

Governance Model

Details of Delegation

  1. Each person gets 1 vote

  2. Each person can delegate any of their votes to any other person

  3. Each person can reclaim their vote on their turn

Rules of Lawmaking

  1. Any person can propose a law

  2. Laws are unrestricted in authority

  3. Laws are passed by a simple majority

  4. No quorum is required

  5. Laws can be proposed at any time

  6. Votes occur one turn after a law is proposed

Execution, Enforcement, and Review

  1. All laws are automatically executed

  2. All laws are automatically enforced

  3. There is no legal review