The rule of 10

After the recent landslide victory of Obama in the presidential campaign of 2012, I reflected on why we keep having to either choose the lesser of two evils or vote our conscience and watch the worse of two evils win.
Our representative form of government is derived historically, I believe, from the rule of 10s found in the Bible.  Moses appointed rulers of 10s who would appoint rulers of 100, who would in turn appoint rulers of 1000 and so on.  It was a bottom-up hierarchical form of management that makes so much more sense to me than what we have.
One must remember that our founding fathers had a bi-cameral house that was originally designed to represent the people at large and the states.  This was sabotaged by the 15th amendment which caused Senators to no longer be appointed by legislatures ( a second-tier form of representation ) but instead became popularly elected.  This significantly transformed our government closer to a straight democracy and away from a proper republic.
Over time the congressional districts have enlarged while the numbers of representatives of the house and senate have stayed the same, causing the ratio of representative/voter to diminish to as little as 1 in 200000.  This creates a mob/class type of order where TV and marketing techniques rule and where the voter has very little real choice.
I wonder how good our leaders would be if they had to emerge from votes from representatives several orders removed from the people?  To a child raised in our "democratic" schools, this may seem like a reduction of the direct input of the people - but is direct popular rule really what we want?  Power corrupts so spreading the power around makes sense.  But placing power equally on unequal shoulders is inviting the fool to rule equally with the wise and influential.
I found out awhile back that our historical townships and precincts apparently came from the rule of 10.  Precincts represented collections of 10 families while townships were groups of 10 precincts.  This aspect of our self-governance has been totally lost and forgotten.
If I represent only 10 people, each of them will have a significant input and influence on my votes going up the line.  If my representative only has 10 people to answer to, he can easily spare time to listen to my thoughts.  Even with short terms of office, a multi-level rule of the rule of 10 form of representation would have a built in lag time of many terms, creating stability while allowing short terms to allow for flexibility, accountability and rapid feedback.
More local decisions could be made by the lower orders of representatives which reuses the simple and existing system to accomplish multiple tasks in government.
Term limits wouldn't be needed and in fact would allow really gifted leaders to stay in place longer and create senior leaders with many years of leadership experience.
The rule of 10 also trains leaders as they go up levels of representation.  Initial responsibilities are small and grow with a proven track record.
Such a system, when combined with juries where appropriate would seem to me, far superior to our existing system of representation.
Another random idea from the mind of an idealistic dreamer.

Principles in Liberty #28

Glen Stoll - part V

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Recorded on 11/5/2008

00:30 Setting the record before you proceed with legal defence
01:00 State the facts, set the record and let God fight your battles for you.
01:26 Live in such a way that people won't believe you're guilty.
01:40 Hovind just wants to preach the Word.
02:40 The fable - the wolf and the lamb - any argument will serve a tyrant's intentions.
03:10 We are living today under tyrany.
04:30 Tyrany of the majority, Tyrany of the ruling class.
04:52 A pure Democracy is a tyrany.
05:33 US was founded as a democratic republic - Republic is based on its organic documents which were in turn based on scripture.
06:16 Oligarchy is the tyrany of the ruling class. We have a corporate government.
07:30 The Class: is the Judiciary - are the Attorneys - the vermin.
08:00 I disagree - the Attorney's are the pratorian guard of the true elite.
08:30 but to win the war you have to beat the army first.
08:45 Back to Hovind - he needs to be exonorated.
09:00 An arial survailence idea during civil war idea never got to Lincoln in time to do any good.
10:28 Kent's wife is not in jail, still awaiting an appeal.
10:47 Joe's attorneys will not let Glen help here at all.
11:20 Glen would be arrested if he showed up at the Pensicola airport. This is a threat from Joe Hovind's attorney.
12:00 Lies to keep Glen away.
12:40 Glen wrote to Jerry Barringer (Joe Hovind's attorney) who never responded to his questions. Thus Glen has concluded that Jerry has lied - Please correct me if I am wrong.
14:30 Don't anger the judge - if you have a mad judge - you have an insane judge.
15:20 I relate a case with my christian attorney.
16:30 Glen has friends that are attorneys (but just a few). They don't always know what they are doing or what the difference is between a lawyer and an attorney.
17:45 Attorneys are taught against the principles of defering powers to the church.
18:00 Seems insane for a court to rule on the document that created them.
18:48 Current status - still helping Kent, can't help Joe, Kent has said he wishes he had followed Glen's advice.
19:30 Attorneys have to give up the arguement (of jurisdiction) because that is their job.
20:00 Wives not understanding the problem.
21:00 We are schooled not to think or argue properly.
22:10 I admire Mrs. Hovind for what she has done to honor Kent.
22:37 She is caught between the fear of man and the fear of God.
23:00 The story of Epaphrus a witness so powerful his ashes were fought over between the churches.
25:00 Final saying by Glen - nobody on the staff is favorable to Glen's views due to religous dogma and bigotry.
27:27 I Cor. 13 commentary by Glen: Charity trumps all.
28:30 Church concept of authority that I have a problem with. That which is is what God wants.
30:30 Glen's theory - God did this on purpose - to make sure we would have to strive with each other and defer in love to get along.
31:30 God could easily intervine and solve all arguments - but he doesn't.
32:51 Why? Because he is more concerned with how we get along.
33:20 What is Charity? Not just love. Cheerfully giving others the benefit of the doubt and deferring to others in joy.
35:24 I witness a very cool fellowship in Idaho before Y2K. They all got along great till Y2K didn't happen.
36:25 So how does the theory cause us to get along? It reveals who and how we can get along.
38:10 I wonder how we will consume each other once the going gets tough.
38:11 Concept of the Law of the Contract - no law imparing the obligation of contract.
38:46 Argument: You can't compell me to do x because I have a contract that doesn't allow that.
39:20 You can't get into a contract that contradicts a previously entered contract.
39:40 The problem with fraud in state contracts.
40:00 Once you know the problem you need to decide what to do. If you continue to participate you concent to the contract.
41:50 Its such an inconvenience to get out of these contracts. Doing so isolates you from working with others.
42:24 Franklin: "If you are willing to give up liberty for security, you will have neigher."
42:31 Escape from Sobibor - true story.
43:37 "I would rather have died making a stand than being led to the slaughter"
44:39 "An antichrist system is any system that takes the place of Christ in your life."
45:80 "If we have submitted to an anti-christ system either by deed (the right hand) or by thought (the forehead) we have taken the mark of the beast."
46:00 Are you saying that people in the system that oppose christ are against christ? Yes.
47:35 You're not helping God by obeying him - you're helping yourself.
48:00 Should we talk about the hows of getting out of the system and staying out.
48:45 Most people suffer first and then take a stand - very view just think about it and decide to do it on moral reasons.
49:18 Glen: "I suffered a lot"
49:50 proving a negative is pretty hard.

Glen still wants to keep talking so we will see what comes next...