They work okay, so long as there ALSO exists a check on the unbridled power of the Will Of The People. In the United States, that consists of Constitutionally granted individual rights that the majority can't take away from the minority, and an unelected judiciary which enforces those.
Which is why elected judges, as they still have in 39 of the more primitive states of the United States, are SUCH a bad idea.
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Which is why elected judges, as they still have in 39 of the more primitive states of the United States, are SUCH a bad idea.