Please check the link and read some of the articles. They have many many quotes from the founders on voting and deliberating in secrecy, even for the creation of the Constitution itself.
So they considered it, and then left it out of the Constitution.
I wonder why?
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I'll concede, in the US, just as in everyplace else, we have a long list of issues with which we need to deal. However, things like public debate and freedom of speech are not present on that list. I, personally, would go one step further, and caution everyone to carefully consider the possible motives of anyone calling for the elimination of public debate and discourse in government.
He's not calling for eliminating public debate. He's calling for eliminating lobbyists by making them stay in the lobby and not be privy to committee meetings and committee votes, not final votes.
Some interesting articles about how previously citizen votes were public and how it led to intimidation, and the push for secret ballots for citizens.
