@light I don’t think that can be done. I mean, in general we do want to go for “the public chooses ends, experts define means”. but “the public” is too inchoate a creature to reliably choose ends, what it says depends upon the institutions and other particulars of how you ask. so we have to constitute an abstraction of the public more coherent and consistent than the latest outrage. Which is, eg, the role of a legislature, and the motivation often for bicameralism. 1/
@light Which is why it’s a profound catastrophe that our legislature is functioning so poorly. Legislatures are our main institution for both meaningfully constituting and representing the public, but doing so with some coherence and constancy. Our constitution wisely makes the legislature supreme in power. But if it fails to function, our system suffers a kind of brain death. /fin