The only thing keeping power benevolent is wisdom.  All power must be founded on wisdom - it's the lifeblood of good decision-making and governance.  Without wisdom, no system can endure for long - no matter how clever its design.

Past system-designers, like the framers of the U.S. Constitution, assumed humans would be corrupt, selfish, and evil, and designed systems to keep their selfishness in check, by pitting one selfish impulse against another, in a bid to have them cancel each other out.

But in reality, no system can stand indefinitely against evil, if it allows enough evil people into power.

A truly effective system must stop such people from rising through the ranks in the first place.  That's the only way.

And Land-Based Progressive Delegation is the optimal way to maximize the accompaniment of power by wisdom.  

All true decision-making power in the Protectorate rests with Council, and every process related to Council - from its election to its deliberation - is designed to maximize the amount of wisdom animating the process.

The basic building-block of the whole process is Village Council.

This takes place:

-Outdoors (barring inclement weather), under open sky - a major source of wisdom
-In the Village Green, the center of the village, the most balanced focal-point of the village's collective consciousness
-On grass or bare soil, allowing a direct, physical connection to the Planet
-Surrounded by trees - another primary source of wisdom
-In a circle - the most balanced, equitable arrangement for deliberation
-After a group meditation, maximizing clear-mindedness before any discussion

Whoever this Council elects to climb the next rung of the ladder - to represent the Village at the Township Council - will have been elected by the uttermost wisdom-inducing process that can possibly happen.  She/he will be the "cream of the crop" - not a "politician", but a truly wise individual - the wisest the Village has.

Thus, a Township Council will consist of the wisest individuals from every Village in the sphere of that Township.

And it will elect the wisest individual to proceed up the ladder, to City Council.

And so forth.  

As the process reaches the top, the High Council consists of the wisest individuals on the planet.  

The average citizen can trust that they're being faithfully represented because everyone who casts a vote, for anyone, at any level of the ladder, is casting a vote for someone whom they personally know, and have interviewed and conversed with, face to face, many times, extensively, for months or even years.  There are no "politicians" in this system; those are for Assembly, which has no official power, being completely subordinate to Council.

Whoever you elect to climb up the ladder is someone you know personally.  And whoever they elect to climb the ladder is someone they know personally.

If you know and trust Person A, and Person A knows and trusts Person B, then you can rest assured that Person B is trustworthy.

And thus, we can have the highest degree of confidence and trust in the people governing us, at every level of the structure.

Simple.  Durable.  Sustainable.  Common sense!