POLS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Universal Suffrage

• School: York University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 1000
• Professor: Martin Breaugh

Document Summary

Last week - need for consent will modify the modern perspective of lottery: the usage of lottery does not rely on continuous expression of consent. Does not confer consent, legitimacy, modern founders will not revert to lottery system. When elections are used, the public office holders gain legitimacy, as opposed to ones gained by lot. Lot is an equalizer, where as elections allow us to choose who we want. Recourse to election will allow for a principle of distinction. Mean that there is something fundamentally inegalitarian (unequal) within systems that use election. Defined as the idea that the office holder should be superior to those who vote for them. Three days wages to count as active citizens. Active were allowed to participate in two tier electoral system: today, united states - leaders will gather in philadelphia. La(cid:396)ge ag(cid:396)ee(cid:373)e(cid:374)t a(cid:373)o(cid:374)gst delegates that p(cid:396)ope(cid:396)ty (cid:396)e(cid:395)ui(cid:396)e(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts is a good thi(cid:374)g. if you do(cid:374)"t ow(cid:374) land, you cant hold public office.