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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (124332)	2/3/2004 9:31:58 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 281500

Tim, that's likely, given the way people around the world vote. Which is one of the reasons I would be against world government. It would be essential to limit the NUN to sovereignty over the commons [ocean, spectrum over the commons, air quality, border definition and protection and river quality and stuff like that]. Even with those limits you can have very intrusive government (try a law that says the US has to cut its CO2 emissions per person by 90% for example). Also if the international government is soverign it can probably amend its constitution to give itself more power. If it is a treaty organization then it probably doesn't have enough power to prevent wars. Democratic processes seem to get the best answers for most people to feel happy enough to not join insurrection movements. How else would we appoint people to be Chief NUNist? I wasn't arguing against such a government being democratic, if we have to have one I'd rather it be some form of a democratic republic, but other people might have different opinions. I think such a government would more likely be at least somewhat democratic then be a dictatorship but I consider world government in my lifetime to be so unlikely that once I make the leap to speculating about such a government I also consider other unlikely things. But since your idea is for a democratic government and I imagine you would oppose the idea of a world dictatorship I suppose for the sake of argument I can rule such a dictatorship out. Tim