Re: Nobility.... or not....

On Tue, 4 Dec 2001 10:21:01 -0500  Rick Rutherford <Rick@esr.com>
writes:
> 
>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?
>
>
>-- Rick Rutherford

Assuming the word confederation was actually properly used, then it
would
be mess like the pre-Constitution USA, a Confederation.  For the NAC
either the word has been 're-defined' for internal coherency or it  is a
political sham (oops, was I redundant?)

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