Quite a diplomatic way of not answering my question !
Mr. Walker, you joined ugandanet which is a country specific discussion forum and I would have thought that you did so because you were interested in issues pertaining to that particular country. If, as you say, you are not interested in country specific stuff, what exactly was your motive of joining ugandanet ?
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I generally try to avoid issues that are country specific, other than to
advocate that the people of the particular state should be allowed to find the
optimal democratic structures for their particular history and cultural subset.
The question of federalism in a given country would have to factor in things
such as the status of kingdoms; in theory the US Constitution allows for a
certain amount of power for example the Kingdom of the indigenous people of
Hawaii, as well as sovereignty for the indigenous people of north America. In
practice, neither set of indigenous people are able to exercise these powers; so
even when things are embedded in Constitutional documents, it is not necessarily
a reflection of reality on the ground.
That is one of the reasons why I think that the main thing is for the
population of a given state to get properly organized, create the kind of unity
necessary for the greatest democracy where they are...whether in a confederation or
federal structure...
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