Public referenda?

[afleitch]

This is something I've been supportive of for some time now whether it's the formal public proposal of referenda, or the creation of a 'tier' of governement that allows all legislation passed by the Senate to be voted on in a public referendum before being signed by the President (or vetoed if the public vote against - i'll need to dig out my posts on that from a while back)

Whether this is adopted or even needed depends on the system of government we decide upon but I feel it is worth discussion. Thoughts?

[afleitch]

If we adopt Smid's parliamentary-universalism proposal, this would be useless.

I agree. But we have to consider the possibility that it won't be adopted. And if it isn't or any other universal system isn't what can we do with regards to direct democracy.