I agree with sentiments against a direct democracy for all the reasons given and some extra reasons: laws should have expiration dates and a better feedback process is needed to determine whether particular laws are beneficial (hmm, sounds like PPL.) The real problem seems to be a general lack of education and wealth, but there is always the bell curve--such things will always be unevenly distributed. However, tracking proposed laws via the net creates the possibility of anyone being able to have a cheap lobbyist--the stuff can be posted and filtered, etc. This has nothing to do with people proposing stupid laws whenever they feel like it (this would require more significant legal changes). Paul E. Baclace peb@procase.com