Questions and Answers About Vision Council
Certainly the Vision Council
has a tremendous potential to become an exciting tool for
local community empowerment. However, a close examination
of the theories behind the program is most definitely in
order. There are many important questions still in need
of exploration: what would happen if the Vision Council
idea was adapted to higher levels of government? How much
power should "the people" have? What are the
possible repercussions of building up the power of the
majority? How could the power of the majority effect the
stability of the legislature and administration? Could
the power of the majority become tyrannical? How much
power might the majority exercise over thought?
The idea that the majority has
the right to govern society was brought by some of the
first visitors to Native America. As we all know, those
first visitors prospered while the original inhabitants
declined. With the prominence of the visitors, came the
prominence of their political inclinations.
The idea of "majority
rules" has been around for along time. However, it
is important to carefully examine the majority whenever
we plan to strengthen its power over the American way of
governing.
