Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Great moments in consensus

[David Heimann (heimann]

Hi Melanie,

	It indeed would be interesting to see a consensus model in any 
legislature, and, as I said in my original post, we just did!

Regards,
David


Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:18:34 -0500
From: melanie griffin <melgrif [at] gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [C-L]_ Great moments in consensus
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But Congress is all about majorities and entrenched positions. It would be
interesting to see a consensus model in any legislature, but I don't think
we're likely to see it in our lifetimes. Horse trading sometimes has a
result that looks like consensus, particularly in front of cameras, but that
result would never be described as something everyone in the room can live
with!.