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There are obvious cognitive priors to independent political participation. Some research has shown that most people do not mature to post-conventional (principled) ethics, but remain tied to the moral consensus or worse, depend on carrot and stick feedback. You cannot meaningfully involve most of these people in important matters, you can't even trust them to competently delegate their individual say to a representative.