Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Prajacracy (More just democracy)- Definitions 1

Prajacracy is improved and more just democracy.

Prajacracy is closer to the ideal of "government of the people, by the people, for the people" not just the majority of the people. Prajacracy takes proportionalism as the guiding principle of fairness and comity in self-governance. It improves upon simple proportional representation.

In presidential prajacracy:
  • the candidate who wins 50% + 1 will be the first president for 2/3 rds the tenure of presidency.
  • the next highest percent vote getter will be the second president for the remaining 1/3 rds of the tenure of the presidency
  • the first president selects if he/she wants to serve the term in the beginning or the end.
In parliamentary prajacracy:
  • the newly elected parliament elects the first prime minister for 2/3rds the term of the parliament with a simple majority
  • the parliamentarians who voted yes for the first prime minister may not vote for the second prime minister.
  • the candidate who wins the majority of the remaining parliamentarians will become the second prime minister for the remaining 1/3 rd of the term. 
  • the first prime minister selects if he/she wants to serve the term in the beginning or the end.
  • Prime ministers can only be recalled by popular vote and not by no confidence motions



Prajacracy will have reasonable restraints on nepotism. In prajacracy all the parties will have primary elections to pick the candidates for the general election. 

Electing representatives to the legislature in prajacracy:


In prajacracy, each constituency will elect three representatives:

If a party gets more than 1/3rd of the vote it gets one representative of its party. If a party gets more than 2/3rd of the vote it gets two of its representatives. If it gets more than 5/6ths of the vote, it gets three of its representatives. 

If the leading party gets more than 1/3rd and less than 2/3rd, the next two highest getting parties will get one candidate each elected as a representative.

Voting rights in the legislature:

In prajacracy, money bills need to be split equally into five money bills per a calendar budget. 

Each representative gets votes to pass no more than three money bills for a calendar year. After a representative has voted for three passing money bills, they can't vote any longer for money bills for that calendar year. This helps distribute the budget proportionally.

Each representative gets 6 votes that they can cast for every 9 non money bills introduced into the chamber. The introduction of the bills is also controlled proportionally such that for every 6 bills introduced by the majority, the minority should be able to introduce 3 bills.