Quoth hrearden: > Thanks for the info. I assume you consider the LNC to be a government. > Is that assumtion correct? Do you consider the board of directors of a > corporation to be a government? I don't think the Redneck Yacht Club > is a government. http://www.redneckyachtclub.com
The LNC is certainly a government. If they weren't, why would they need to consider whether to adopt the "Carver Governance Model" versus some other "governance" model for their operations (that's been an ongoing discussion for some years)? The Carver Model, is of course, a model specific to corporate governance, which should answer your question as to whether corporate boards of directors are governments. In most (although not all) cases, however, political committees and corporate boards are not _states_. Like I said, there are exceptions, such as totalitarian societies in which a particular party monopolizes the apparatus of state and in which a party committee (like the CPSU's "Political Bureau," better known as the Politburo) operates it, or in which a corporation does the same (as, for example, some colonies which were directly governed -- their laws made and their officials appointed -- by the East India Co.). For the most part, non-state governments govern specific operations of specific _voluntary_ groups, often not constituted on the basis of geographical locations. It is the state which asserts a claim to govern all those residing within a specific geographic area and which claims a monopoly -- explicit/enforced in some cases, implicit/unenforced in others -- on all governance within that area. Tom Knapp ForumWebSiteAt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
