Charakterpsephosarchy

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Charakterpsephosarchy [pronounced: character-sef-oh-sarchy], is a rough ancient Greek translation of "representative voters government", meaning elected officials elect most of the more elite government workers. Forms of this concept have been used in many different representative forms of government, including constitutional monarchies and democracies. However, few nations consider themselves a charakterpsephosarchy. An example of this government is when you have some sort of elected group, or a representative commune, which is elected by the citizens perhaps by a specified number per state, or several per province, etc. They would then in turn vote for most of the heads of governmental departments. However, to stop this branch from becoming too powerful, laws would be past say a national leader, say a President or Prime Minister, could prevent the small commune from corrupting, or even propose mass impeachement, which will be decided by a court system, whom will be elected by the people and therefore will probably feel no allegience or byass to any of the corruptors.