something...something...representative democracy...something...without representation...something... Oh, yeah. Here it is. Found it. Starts in "Revolution", and ends in "All Traitors Must Hang". Problem solved. The most important things are always simple. When your reps live in constant fear of the rope, you can actually get some relatively rational, somewhat functional government out of them. When they don't... Every once in a while you have to hang one or two to remind them who's in charge. The chinese call it, "Killing a chicken to frighten the monkeys."