*FRIENDS OF BOLIVIA INVITE YOU TO SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR THE CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT, PRESIDENT MORALES AND THE PEOPLE OF BOLIVIA!* * * *WHEN: Sunday, May 4,...
... I think Carol does too; I assume she's sending this along to alert us to the fact that there will be an anti-secession counter-protest. Might be ...
... Leftists definitely don't like it when rich capitalist states dominated by wealthier descendents of European Spaniards secede from poor left wing...
... Yes, I think so; in fact, wasn't the Bolivian government's response to the Lakota Declaration of Independence initially positive? That is, before they...
BillingsGazette.com :: Natives & newcomers: Lost river, lost powersThe ownership of who owns the Big Horn River on the Crow Reservation is not settled, as the...
http://bayareanationalanarchists.com/blog/2008/04/liberty-and-populism-building.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National-Anarchism I've just become aware of...
Neally? I've known about these guys for a couple of years. They're funny as hell. They're completely sincere, mind you, which makes what they're spouting even...
Theres a simple solution to rich state secession which is that if the state is rich because it has an excess of natural resouces and wants secession badly...
I think we should all vote for the worst possible president in order to motivate secession, then vote in all other elections for the people who most hate that...
... I generally vote for the best candidate running. Usually that candidate has no chance of winning. It so happened that there was a city council election...
Before this thread goes any further -- the flaws of any specific regime are off topic here (imho). The point of devolution is to reduce the need for people to...
These are times to be rereading the second book of Paradise Lost, where the Chief Demons are debating what, if anything, to do about their fallen condition...I...
It could be scary if the few at the top get a super nation or super state such as say Iowa for whites, Mississppi for blacks and Arizonia for latinos but I...
So far, this thread has contained nothing regime specific except for for the word "president" for which "national head of state" could be substituted, and the...
well, your a pessimistic lot... and your responses beg the question, if not Democracy, then, what? Nicht vergessen! Am Sonntag, den 11. Mai ist Muttertag ...
How about the Constitutional republic designed by the Framers. This was never supposed to be a democracy. The Framers knew better. They knew democracies...
... In fairness, I don't think the original question was posed by an American, and "democracy" can mean two different things: direct democracy, which no ...
... This ... They ... hear ... American, ... which no ... elections for ... which "constitutional ... I would argue the point that republics are a "subset" of ...
... Well, all of this is true, but nevertheless, even the original constitutional republic had "open, fair, and competitive elections for policy-making...
... The question could use some context, but if by "democracy" you mean rule by voting, some of us consider it a poor substitute for actual consent. -- Anton...
... An even more important one imho was the separation of powers, though that was ultimately undermined by the supremacy clause. In the Federalist Papers...
Finally! Thank you Jason Sorens! We are supposed to be using the government as a tool, the action of which comes from the people, the form of which is a ...
... Checks ... to ... most ... for ... The original design for the selection of senators was part of the idea of seperation of powers. It made the US Senate a...
... And thereby *diluted* the separation of powers! Though I don't think that was a bad thing; giving the States a quasi-veto on legislation was a necessary...
I want my state to be a democracy where I can vote directly on laws and not indirectly based on cults of personality and stuff like "leadership experience" or...
Tensions over the independence of Abkhazia from Georgia are heating up. Notice the role of Russia (which confirms the information from Wikipedia that I posted...
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