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I wonder if we need a multicameral legislature with several smaller bodies segregated by purpose.
Have a house of politicians, career folks who do things like treaties and appointment of diplomats, that sort of thing. This probably needs to be no term limit or lifetime appointment because the purpose here is to be a member of the boy's club, you're the guy the chancellor of Germany has a rapport with. If you're caught taking bribes, foreign or domestic, your death will be humiliating and uncomfortable.
Have a house of professionals, open only to doctors, engineers, folks like that. This body handles industry regulation, this is where anything from highway construction to food and drug laws to aviation regulations will be written. I would be tempted to eliminate voting here and make it like jury duty. If you've got a professional degree or license, (in fact I'm favoring licenses; I don't care if you have a medical degree, I want a license to practice medicine. I don't care if you've got an AeroSci degree, I want an airline transport pilot certificate, I don't care if you have an engineering degree, I want a certified PE) you might be called to serve a term. It might be that this year the body is made of ALL medical doctors as health, wellness and medicine related laws are reviewed and updated, then next year it's all civil engineers and they review highway and building codes, etc. Maybe mixed sessions happen for things like occupational safety where industrial engineers and medical doctors both weigh in. May also need to include folks with technical certifications like nurses, A&P mechanics, folks like that. This body doesn't touch social issues, only things like standards for mineral content in municipal water supplies and testing standards for fall arrest gear.
Have a house of businessmen, who are given fake microphones and staff that pretends to do what they're told, with actors making fake news broadcasts that make them think they're policies are enacted. I think a core problem with democracies in the modern day is they don't feature such dummy loads, so we shall install such a thing.
A house of lawyers whose job it is to maintain things like contract law.
What else am I missing?
what you're describing is known as "expert agencies". non-elected experts work together to suggest courses of action for the government on their assigned topic. since they are not elected, they can not make decisions, but they can draft bills for parliament to vote on. hey also do studies on request of other branches.
you may have heard of some of these agencies, like the FDA, EPA, CDC...
Yeah, the thing is I want to remove the possibility for the likes of Ted Cruz to have a say in anything technical.