Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site mnetor.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsri!utcs!mnetor!sophie From: sophie@mnetor.UUCP Newsgroups: can.politics Subject: Re: The state is NOT the people ... Re: paying plumbers Message-ID: <1344@mnetor.UUCP> Date: Wed, 17-Jul-85 13:34:43 EDT Article-I.D.: mnetor.1344 Posted: Wed Jul 17 13:34:43 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 17-Jul-85 14:32:46 EDT References: <533@ttidcc.UUCP> <302@looking.UUCP> <2210@watcgl.UUCP> <304@looking.UUCP> Organization: Computer X (CANADA) Ltd., Toronto, Ontario, Canada Lines: 24 > 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 {allegra|decvax|ihnp4|linus|watmath}!utzoo!mnetor!sophie