I disagree, also, with the notion of policy disagreements being the root cause of discord which we should preferentially address.
Take it from someone who has talked with people who exist outside of your "sphere" here. They feel like the current system does not work for them.
Is the current system the root of it all? No, but many feel it's limiting. Despite its egalitarian nature.
This is starting to feel like "
some people say". I realize that some may be reticent to stand by their views, but I think that in a democracy, you kind of have to.
Unless we become a totalitarian dictatorship, we will always have policy disagreements. If we want to avoid the kind of flamewars we've seen recently we need to change something else, I think.
Well then what do you propose? Legislation won't deal with the problems not related to the current system. So if you'd like to deal with those issues, and I think everyone would like to, then it would need to be through some other means.
Which either means getting together to talk it over OR just banning anyone who you disagree with re: those deeper issues. Which would be just the worst, given the origin of this region.
Yes, I think we need to talk those out. I just don't see how this legislation would remove those problems, unless one 'side' folds up and leaves over this passing... until the next factionalization.
I will leave if Taijitu turns into a representative democracy. We don't want to be like every other region in NS, failing at that.
That would be unfortunate 
At the same time? We shouldn't hold the region hostage to the whims of a few members. Doing that is what caused so much stress here in the first place.
... How so?
In my experience throughout NS, representative legislatures have never been in anyway inherently superior to direct ones, and more often than not put up an extra barrier to ordinary members getting discussions about whatever's on their mind going. I think the dysfunction we're currently seeing is not with the legislature, which has never had any trouble passing new laws when they were necessary, but with the executive.
Except our region was at its peak under a representative democratic government.
The Senate of 2007 was more like the Ecclesia of 2015 than the elected Senate of 2011-2013: Any Taijituan could join it and vote on legislation.
As for the current system not putting up barriers? Many people feel differently. And that's led, in part, to the dysfunction we're seeing.
I really don't think "some people say" is at all a strong argument regarding facts.
We've had an explosion of various directly elected officers, and I think it's splintered the government somewhat to its detriment. A more effective improvement would be to alter the law to consolidate some of them under the auspices of a single one who can appoint committees or something of the sort.
So basically a strong, centralised executive? 
Which is what I plan to propose should we have a constitutional convention. Only that way would free the shackles from this quagmire of legislative supremacy that has left the region without direction and has promoted a culture of, well, assumed victory.
What is this "quagmire of legislative supremacy" of which you speak? And what would make a new system immune from assumed victory?
That's ultimately the problem with the Glorious Revolution. Utopia is a wonderful goal to strive for. Until you actually achieve it.
Sounds nice but I don't see what it actually means.
