On Feb 17, 2008, at 3:37 PM, Bill O'Connor wrote:
> These "super" delegates are elected directly by the people or
> appointed
> by officials that are directly elected by the people. Just another
> aspect of representative government, with the currently trendy
> "controversy" much ado about nothing.
So let's bring back the days when the Senate was elected by state legislatures! What's the diff?
You don't think that elected officials have their own interests separate from the voters? Ever heard of something called agency theory?
Doug