1) Yes, the House appropriates money. But the only means of direct democracy that the people have to control the House is electing them. Once in office, there is very little the people can do to in regards to what Representatives do, except vote or not vote for them in the next election.
2) It could be argued that if we had more processes of direct democracy, the people would have more tools to monitor what Representatives, as well as Senators, do once while in office.
3) I did not say that with direct democratic process things would not be corrupt. However, they would be less corrupt, as the corruption would be so spread out as to not make much of a difference - an argument you yourself have made in regards to allowing state legislators elect our Senators.
4) By limiting power to a few you concentrate the possibility for corruption, and our circumstances would be even worse than what they are now.
OK, you tell me if i have it right what your saying about not having control of our representatives.
the people are electing their representatives to congress, , but those representatives are not listening to the people and are enacting things in the name of special interest or faction as Madison called it?
so in the house representatives the only democratic thread of -->republican government, the representatives of the PEOPLE .......are not listening to the people?
the member's of the senate, because NOW it is a democratic process, and elected by the PEOPLE........... are not listening to the people either.
so we have now the house and senate being lobbied by all sort of groups, with those groups lobbying for laws, money, things which benefit them and not the people...........do i have you correct up to this point?
now you explain to me, in a nation the size we are, and the people most of them not understanding the legislative process, how we are going to have the people vote directly and regularly, and know what they are voting on to control both branches of the legislature so they work in the people's interest, since people are to busy in their daily lifes.
in republican government of the founding fathers, senators CANNOT be lobbied, because it done not matter what special interest group try's to, because the senator HAS TO VOTE according to his state legislators, he is not FREE as he is today to make his own personal choice.
to lobby for 51 senators vote, you would have to lobby over 26 state legislative bodies,that would take a lot of money and time.......not a practical thing to even try to do. since legislative bodies work in the interest of the states, this special interest groups, would find it very difficult, to get what they want passed.
since legislators are NOT going to allow their senators to vote for any legislation, which diminishes the ------>states power...by the federal government more.
