What can and cannot work on a small scale is generally an indication of how it would perform on a larger scale.<p>When trying to make a micro macro comparison, I tend to think of governance of nation states as very similar to governance of corporations.<p>When we think of the small scale that is governance of companies, we know intuitively that a company is best served by having sharp minded decision makers and having smooth talking sales people as a middle layer between company-wide strategy and the public... To put it another way, we intuit the following: A company where all decisions are decided by a diverse comitee of both the dumbest and the smartest would be a bit of a disaster.<p>The founding fathers of America's republic kind of knew all of this. They tried to put limits to voting in place that would serve to promote a sort of Proof-of-Stake in Democracy (land-owning family men vote, etc). Unpopular as the founders may be in the current attempted corporate neo-marxist zeitgeist, I do believe the founding fathers were on the right track to be limiting voting rights.