These laws made lawmakers of a substantial number of Americans. The Internet now suggests the same possibility for all Americans, addressing the real reason for voter alienation. Governance within the American polity is structurally flawed. The Constitution limits the power of government but gives unlimited control of that power to a very small minority of individuals. Actually, the Framers had no alternative but to define for us a representative legislative structure.
Representation is made necessary only because it is impossible for the people to act collectively.
5 Wilson acknowledged the obvious impossibility of assembling great numbers of people from distant geographic areas to operate as a polity. Thus were technological limitations in 1787 of crucial importance in determining the structure of Congress as defined in the Constitution. Removing technological barriers still leaves a constitutional question about the power of the people to legislate in some minds. 6 Second, today nineteen states permit their citizens to legislate by initiative, California, Missouri and Oregon for example. Additionally, twenty-three states use referenda.