Unanimocracy

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The term unanimocracy was coined by anarcho-capitalist A.B. Dada to cover the apolitical equivalent of democracy. The term is a combination of "unanimous" and "democracy" meaning a democracy of unanimous consent.

The first definition of unanimocracy was posted on slashdot and covers 3 rules:

1. No law can exist without a unanimous vote of the populace -- direct democracy in ultimate form. 2. All laws sunset after 6 years. 3. No future laws can change any of the 3 basic rules.

The ideals of a unanimocracy should create 7 levels of government: Federal, Regional, State, County, Village, Community, Household.

The most basic example of a unanimocracy is as follows (from the slashdot post):

If 300,000,000 voters can't pass a law unanimously at the Federal level (let's say minimum wage), then they can try at the Regional level (3-4 states maybe). If those 40,000,000 can't pass a minimum wage law, they can try it at the State level. If those 10,000,000 can't pass the law unanimously, they can try it at the County level, and so on and so on.

Some laws may only exist at the Household level. Some might be only at the County level -- and counties will compete for similar-believing citizens.

Most laws will never pass at the Federal level. You might have "No murder" laws at the Federal level, but you sure won't have "No using drugs" or "No prostituting" laws at even the State level. If a law DOES pass, in 6 years it fails and must be repassed by the new voting bloc.

As is the case with many anarcho-capitalists, voting is not an acceptable way to change society. A unanimocrat votes only for his or her own name on each ballot entry, in order to offset the percentage of voters who do not accept any of the parties running for office. The thought of this action is to show that a certain percetange of voters do not agree with neither the winners nor the loser of an election, removing any thought of a mandate occurring from the process of voting. In the U.S., voting for yourself is the equivalent of voting for "none of the above."