After 1688 the channel that did most for pluralism was not the vote: petitioning "was much more significant than the limited extent of democracy", and "Anybody could petition Parliament, and petition they did. Significantly, when people petitioned, Parliament listened." Our design gives capital its voice in decision markets and keeps capital out of votes on knowledge. The book says the third channel matters most: anyone, member or not, can put a case in and gets an answer. For our collectives that is the public intake, plus a duty to answer it. That is the channel most easily left as a formality. Inference beyond the quotes is Leo's.

Feeds: governance by decision markets plus member steering. QUALIFIES it: markets give voice in proportion to capital and votes give voice in proportion to membership, and neither is the petition. The book's evidence is that the outsider's right to be heard and answered carried pluralism further than the franchise did.

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Evidence 2 passages

groundsWhy Nations Fail, Daron Acemoglu
The most important was via petitioning, and this was much more significant than the limited extent of democracy for the emergence of pluralism after the Glorious Revolution.
groundsWhy Nations Fail, Daron Acemoglu
Anybody could petition Parliament, and petition they did. Significantly, when people petitioned, Parliament listened.

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