On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, David Krings wrote: > And directly voting over any law is not what defines a democracy, although I > cannot think of any place other than the USA and its states where popular > vote > is often used for deciding what becomes law or not.
Huh? Most parliamentary systems involve voting on legislation, for example, just like here, laws have to pass through two houses inthe UK before they become law. In some ways its worse here because for example, you dont have national referendums on important national issues. So one could say that people have less say in the decision making process in this country than many others. Parliamentary debate means having to stand up and face your critics and opponents. You just dont have that in this country - King Bush doesn't have to answer to anyone. Did I say king? Oops... I guess it feels more like a monarchy to me. -- Aj. _______________________________________________ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
