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From: wellspringcp <69349872+wellspringcp@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2021 23:55:51 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] Update 04-suffrage-apologia.md

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 ## Eligibility to vote:
 
-We want to ensure that all indepagents which earn income and pay taxes for a particular term, are eligible to vote to control the policies and offices which influence the labour they perform over the next term of that office. It stands to reason that (only) indepagents that pay taxes should have controlling say in how that money is spent.
+We want to ensure that all indepagents which earn income and pay taxes for a particular term, are eligible to vote to control the policies and offices which influence the labour they perform over the next term of that office.
 
 ### Agency
 
@@ -14,6 +14,6 @@ For example, to qualify to vote for a 4-year termed office, one must have made t
 
 ### Constitutional amendments:
 
-As Antonin Scalia said of constitutional amendment: "It ought to be hard, but not too hard". Another way of putting it is that a republic is meant to be rule of law, not rule by the will of the times. Achieving that balance is diffcult. We take heart that where changes are desired by an overwhelming majority, they are usually made through the constitutional amendment process -- and where necessary they are made by force of even civil war.
+As Antonin Scalia said of constitutional amendment: "It ought to be hard, but not too hard". Another way of putting it is that a republic is meant to be rule of law, not rule by the will of the times. Achieving that balance is diffcult. We take heart that where changes were in fact desired by an overwhelming majority, they were usually successfully made through the constitutional amendment process -- and where necessary they were made by force of even civil war.
 
 We chose these eligibility criteria to ensure that there was a minimum number of years over which a person must have been productive within the economy, before they take it upon themselves to vote to change the way the economy works. In addition, we want to ensure that a person who votes on a constitutional amendment has laboured within the economy relatively *recently* before they deign to know what changes it requires - so someone who worked 15 years within `WS` at some point and then spent the last 20 years living outside of `WS` shouldn't be able to fly in and vote on a controversial amendment to control a polity s/he probably is no longer intimately acquainted with.