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Of course any idea can be reduced to absurdity but, as a general concept, I have no problem with city-states and free cities and would be very happy to see them
by carsongross 10y ago
Of course any idea can be reduced to absurdity but, as a general concept, I have no problem with city-states and free cities and would be very happy to see them revived as a widespread form of sovereignty.
- ende 10y agoFederalism is a perfectly good system for distributing sovereignty within a shared security arrangement so as to avoid the wars that naturally erupt between perfectly soverign states. Unfortunately we have spent the past 100 years eroding local and state sovereignty by treating national politics as the only place where meaningful government happens. Devolution is a much saner path than sessesion.
- carsongross 10y agoI agree that federalism would be preferable in the case of the United States in theory, but experience has shown that in practice power tends to concentrate in the highest level of sovereignty. I don't share your pessimism regarding wars and smaller sovereign states. I think a world filed with relatively small Switzerland-style nations would be a less bombed world.