Aristocratic Republic?

[xsampa]

How would a republic where suffrage is limited to an extremely small pool of electors, like the Conclave of Cardinals or the Seven Electors of the Holy Roman Empire, and that regularly holds elections without becoming a mon-archy look like?

This comes from Howard Scott’s Technate where he planned for the uppermost level of the Organization (formally nonpartisan) (consisting of heads of State Owned Enterprises and departments of the government) to vote for a Director for Life.

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Technocracy urges that the·Government of the United States institute immediately the total conscrip· tion of all eflectives, male and female, between the ages of.18 and 65, for national service, civilian and military. All citizens shall serve on the same basi.~ of pay as the Armed Forces with the same standards of food, clothing, and health protection, and with the same allowances for all dependents regardless of rank or social position.

 

[theev]

How would a republic where suffrage is limited to an extremely small pool of electors, like the Conclave of Cardinals or the Seven Electors of the Holy Roman Empire, and that regularly holds elections without becoming a mon-archy look like?

 

[Indicus]

Venice, Genoa, Ragusa, the Dutch Republic, take your pick really.

 

[xsampa]

Venice, Genoa, Ragusa, the Dutch Republic, take your pick really.

The question is how such a system can survive the Age of Revolution

 

[Japhy]

The question is how such a system can survive the Age of Revolution

Only though violence. Because its just a reactionary state with extra steps.

 

[Edmund]

in the Technate model, all non-Org people would be conscripted from birth as soldiers and raised in government creches

Nothing could go wrong with this. The warrior caste excluded from power at birth probably end up overthrowing this aristocratic republic within two or three generations (which in this form really can only be established as some sort of 'utopian' project).