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Comment by lenerdenator

> The only incentive governments ever have to not do bad shit is that the people will hate it so much that the government will wind up with less power than they started with.

Well, that's the trick, isn't it? You have to give people a way to reduce government's power if the government does something the people don't like, but do it in a way that keeps society from flying apart.

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