RE: Nobility.... or not....

On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Rick Rutherford wrote:

>  
> Ryan Gill wrote:
> >
> > But it is a Confederation. Not an Empire. Not a Republic. A 
> > confederation is very very loose.
> 
> Interesting... so if there's any modern-day government that the NAC
most
> resembles, it would be the Australian government -- strong,
independent
> state (provincial?) governments, overseen by a weaker federal
> government?

Sure, Canada is pretty similar. The federal govt. handles foreign
affairs,
defence, etc, and sets national standards for a number of things; the
provinces do the bulk of the day-to-day governing internally, and all
have
a certain (fairly low) level of autonomy.

Lots of inter-governmental diplomacy to sort out details (and money...).

In fact, the US states in some ways have even more autonomy right now -
Canadian provinces have no equivilent of the US State National Gaurd,
who
AFAIK can be given orders by the state's Governor.

Imagine another lay of govt. over the present 'federal' systems, a
shifting of responsibilities around - that would work for the NAC.

Brian - yh728@victoria.tc.ca -