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From: cliff@unm-ivax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: World Government
Message-ID: <516@unm-ivax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 6-Jul-83 00:17:19 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul  6 00:17:19 1983
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I am interested in designing a world government that would encourage
alternate governments under it.  I picture a simple design (the
implementation will be intricate, but I may be nuclear rubble before
I get a chance to work on it).

A major premise behind my vision is each participating country would
not prevent emmigration in any way between other participating countries
Immigration could be limited in any way the governing body of a
particular country wishes.  It would be hard to have one country
imprisoning people for victimless crimes if another country would be
happy to allow the ``criminals'' to imigrate w/o completing their sentance.
Hopefully there would be no countries that would relish importing murderers,
but if there were, and everyone in the country had the option to leave,
there would be a place for the hardened criminals to kill each other in
peace.


I hope that teaser will get people conversing about the concept of a
Meta-government that will encourage evolution in governments.
I believe that a country will prosper in direct proportion to
the support of individual rights.  I hope to live in the day that
will make our current practices look like barbarism from a dark age.


				--Cliff [Matthews]
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