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From: sophie@mnetor.UUCP
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Subject: Re: The state is NOT the people ... Re: paying plumbers
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Date: Wed, 17-Jul-85 13:34:43 EDT
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> Currently:
> 
> Anarchy:  No state
> Dictatorship:  "L'etat, c'est moi", as a certain French king once said
> Theocracy: The state is the church
> Soviet Union:  The state is the Kremlin
> Executive Representative Democracy:  The state is ~ the cabinet
> 		(This is the one Canada is closest to most of the time)
> U.S.A. : the state is the President, Congress and Courts balancing one another.
> Representative democracy: The state is the legislature.
> Participatory democracy: The state is any given 51% of the people, varying
> 			from issue to issue.
> Computer Netonomic society: The state is the people.
> 
> (You can guess which of the above is of my design!)
> -- 
> Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473

ok, I will guess: none of the above.
Brad Templeton: the state is the people with money (at least judging from
everything else I have ever heard or read from you).
-- 
Sophie Quigley
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