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To: D. Long who wrote (9162)5/20/1999 12:44:00 AM
From: The Philosopher  Read Replies (2) of 17770
 
You are incorrect because you misunderstand the term sovereign. Your position only works if you deny the right of a sovereign state to give up any of its rights and powers. By your definition there is no such thing as a sovereign state in the world, since every nation has SOME treaties, membership in the World Bank, UN, WTO, etc. by which it accepts both the benefits and the costs of allowing another body to govern certain of its behaviors. The US regularly wins and loses cases in the WTO; do you contend that we are therefore not a sovereign state?

If you want to take the sterile position that there is no such thing as a sovereign state and probably never has been in the history of the human race, then your are technically correct but your position is meaningless and devoid of any intelligent meaning. If that is your position, you win the argument, but you have removed yourself from any ability to discuss issues that exist in the real world.
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