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>Yet they offer more representation and individual freedom to small countries than does the American constitution I had to laugh after reading this line. Ameri
by maverick_iceman 10y ago
>Yet they offer more representation and individual freedom to small countries than does the American constitution
I had to laugh after reading this line. American constitution gives much more power to the residents of the smaller states because of the Senate and the electoral college. In addition, US offers everyone much stronger civil liberties than most European countries. Compare the First Amendment with Germany's hate speech laws for example.
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- pavlov 10y agoThe European Council is the most powerful decision maker in the EU, and it decides by consensus except where treaties specifically provide otherwise. For a small country that's hell of a lot more power than the biases of Senate and electoral college representation. Civil liberties between USA and EU are a toss: the First Amendment is strong in its scope, but on the other hand things like privacy are much better protected in most EU countries. American legislation doesn't do much to protect citizens against corporations.
- lacampbell 10y agoI feel like I need much more protection from governments than I do from corporations - so putting the government in charge of protecting me from something much less dangerous/violent seems very very odd. I suppose governments are regarded as inevitable, which is why this strange double standard exists.