alt Hacker NewsThe US example that I would give would be the Articles of Confederation being turned over and replaced with our Constitution.
In the article I read this to mean: they designed a power structure thinking it should be fully open and flat, like a company where everyone can do everything on GitHub. But once they had run the project for some time, they acknowledged that the decisions were flowing through the three people.
> The US example that I would give would be the Articles of Confederation being turned over and replaced with our Constitution.
That’s a legit example I knew of, but didn’t come to mind when thinking through this. Thank you
Edit: legit from the view that the “democracy” was between states and they voted to give up some of their sovereignty to a federal government, not that The People voted for removing democracy