The Wall by Gautam Bhatia

Author:Gautam Bhatia [Bhatia, Gautam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Fantasy, General
ISBN: 9789353578367
Google: hqfrDwAAQBAJ
Amazon: B08B7SS1CL
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India
Published: 2020-08-12T23:00:00+00:00

IV: You said you’d implement it the day Dichio was overthrown.

The President: Look, the life of this City is experience. And one of the greatest experiences we had was the Revolution, the process of the Revolution. It taught us a lot about power, about governing, and, most importantly, about people. So after Dichio was gone, we had two choices. One was the tentative proposal that—as you describe—aimed to set-up a system of direct elections to choose lawmakers. But one thing we realized almost immediately was that this system is very easy to abuse—ultimately, people who already hold power within the Circles would, through bribes or threats, get themselves elected to Council, and then do nothing at all for the people who voted them in. We’ve seen this before, in some of the sham systems that were instituted before Dichio.

So then we had this other idea—instead of asking the people who they wanted to represent them in the lawmaking process, we would ask them about the outcome of the process. That’s why we said that every law passed by the Council must be assented to by a majority of the Circles, after a full and open debate in the Maidan. That’s how we took the decision to widen the streets in the Middle Circles, to have lamps all along the Rasa—

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