EEL Mk2 wrote:I prefer the original proposal because I do not see an empowered youth parliament as a manifestation of big government.
Logically, any increase in the number of organs and/or powers of a government will increase it's size.
EEL Mk2 wrote:I say this because the size of government is not dependent on which government body exercises it; government does not become any bigger simply because legislation is delegated.
As I have said above, adding an organ to a government will increase it's size. Unless the addition of a Youth Parliament is accompanied by a decrease in the size and/or power of other state organs, proportional to the increase caused by the Youth Parliament, the size of the government will increase.
EEL Mk2 wrote:On a separate matter, which didn't come to my mind until recently, the idea of a youth parliament with complete powers over any field of government policy is problematic because that is not consistent with the game mechanism whereby all policies are determined by the legislature, and as we know the mechanism comes first.
Couldn't the legislature mechanic, in some ways, be considered an abstract representation of all legislative organs combined?