It's hard because government regulate people's quarrels, so they need to been able to size money from a citizen and give them to another. Tribunals can't operate without such power. It's still possible though to limit government power on citizens will on scale, like a consensus protocol where the government can't avoid asking not can't ignore the citizens response. This is the best way we have to develop a substantial democracy, but we need a big enough Demos, who are not the people at a whole but just the active part of them in a society. Actually the Demos is dramatically reduced