An Interesting Political Quiz

[EricHiggin]

Mnementh said:

EricHiggin said:

Which is exactly why large (growing) Federal Governments are such a big problem most of the time. You either need many many separate smaller democratically based Countries where a large Fed Gov isn't necessarily a problem, because the people who choose to live there want that style of Gov, or, in a single large diverse nation, a small Fed Gov, with many many larger more powerful State Gov's (though not too large or powerful).

The world would be a much better place if people were able to live how they wanted without having to be forced to differently by Government, or if we didn't have people going around forcing others to live differently through Government.

There is also the alternative of a central gov with separation of powers, so that each part of the gov in itself isn't that powerful. The separation of power into smaller units is one way, but also separating different powers in a bigger country works as well.

Yes but you need A LOT of independent sections of separation in that case. Not enough sections and separation, with enough corruption, and next thing you know you've got the few branches of Gov working together to better the Gov and themselves instead of the people. Either that or sections of the Gov stop doing their jobs and allow other branches to take over where there is any overlap or gray area. At that point there's way too much centralized power, and that's a much bigger problem the bigger the Country is.

If a larger Country was split up into many smaller States with more power, where the Fed Gov can't and doesn't interfere much, its far easier for the people to keep both Gov's under control. Worst case if a State Gov becomes too corrupt, you just up and leave to another State that doesn't have the same Gov problems. That's something where the State they left, will eventually be forced to change and smarten up once enough people have gone elsewhere. This wouldn't be too much different than taking one big Country and splitting it up into many smaller Countries, as long as they're all some form of democracy. It's easy enough to move from one Country to another in today's world.