Quoting David M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi Platt > > The state should be a co-operative venture, > where we keep binding laws to an agreed > minimum, if we are wise. Generally it seems > to be the tool of elites, at best struggling > with each other to give us some balance of powers > perhaps. I think I hope that such co-operation > can deliver more than you do and you fear it > leads to too much state control, but different > polities should be free to choose how far they > want to balance co-operative gains against > individual freedoms that require levels of > autonomy and self-reliance that perhaps modern > ways of life have made too difficult or even too > low in living standards. >
Hi David M, Sounds to me when you say "co-operative venture" that you are willing to abide by simple majority votes. The Founding Fathers saw the danger of mobocracy and devised a republic full of checks and balances, and the people added individual protections from the mob in the Bill of Rights. Perhaps I have read you wrong. But it seems to me the political system representd by the U.S. Consititution is the best created so far. The only provision I would change would be the one that gives Congress the power to regulate interstate commerce. That his led to all sorts of interference in the Dynamic free market. Platt ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
