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The only real problem with American federalism is the huge loving number of loopholes/blind spots in the constitution which gently caress with the government's ability to regulate things. A more useful change would be abolishing House constituencies and moving to a party list voting system to fix gerrymandering
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Kyrie eleison posted:It should have an Emperor appointed by the pope http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_Holy_Synod other way around you heretical pagan fucker
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We should return the South to the Cherokee and the Midwest to the Cree, and then we can finally establish the socialist utopia in California and New York
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Apr 14, 2015 00:45
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Locke Dunnegan posted:Captain_Maclaine, thanks for not being a dick about someone honestly attempting discussion. I hadn't thought about it the way you explained it, and I see what the issues are with letting some states have more power to oppress. You are the first to do even a short direct response and I have more understanding, thanks. There is no increase in the power of the government over the last 15 years, not in the US and not in any other important country you might care to mention. The American federal government has been slowly dying for like 40 years now, mostly because of the concerted political effort to kill it off. But it's an irrelevant point, because oppression and racism in society has basically nothing to do with the libertarian conception of the size of the government that you're referring to here. Medieval Europe was close to a libertarian paradise, with no central government to speak of and isolated, self sufficient manorial estates where a small caste of upper class ruled over masses of propertyless peasants. The Old South was fairly similar except replace peasants with black slaves.
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Apr 14, 2015 02:04
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Typo posted:You don't have to copy the feature precisely, you can have the senate as oppose to the house of lords being the upper house for instance. FPTP is directly responsible for the existence of gerrymandering and getting rid of gerrymandering requires getting rid of FPTP
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SedanChair posted:That's not gridlock, and it's not corruption ; it's the closest thing to perfection that does not proceed directly from the hand of God. Actually, about that... 
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