Guilt is a truth claim. When a jury is asked to find a defendant guilty or not guilty they are being asked if they concur with the claims made by the case for the prosecution. To accuse someone of a crime is to make a claim... which the defendant will seek to refute. If nothing is true then no one is guilty and there are no criminals and no crimes.
We can think of the government as a criminal but to gain a prosecution against it we must show that a crime has been committed and if there are no crimes then the government is always innocent. It is for this reason that the government is resistant to proportional representation. We can view pr as the sentence for a guilty government. But if the government is innocent there is no reason to impose pr. Pr is a sentence imposed on a guilty government.
The government can always deny its guilt.
If government is bad (guilty) then we would want pr... if not then we can stick with fptp. Trying to impose pr on the government is like trying to impose a sentence on a criminal... impossible.
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