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Old 02-28-2003, 10:43 AM   #4
Moiraine
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Join Date: March 1, 2001
Location: Up in the Freedomland Alps
Age: 61
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Shouldn't those questions be a smidgin less a 'black or white' kind of choice ? It is impossible to reply with "Yes" or "No" without making an extremist and irrealistic and unwise choice ...

Question 1 of 5: Should the US keep it's constitution or scrap it for the UN Charter?
Speaking about the French constitution and not the US one, my choice is no. The UN do NOT replace governments, it completes them, and supersedes them about international matters - peace, but also development programs, scientific programs, ...

Question 2 of 5: Should all nations submit to the rule of the UN?
Yes, for international matters. No for internal matters - the UN has no vocation to replace governments.

Question 3 of 5: Does it make sense for some nations to have greater influence in the UN?
Depends on what you put under 'sense'. And how you define the hierarchy between nations : PIB ? Number of citizens ? ... And on what programs you apply that hierarchy to.

Question 4 of 5: Should the EU have only a single vote in the UN?
Why should the US have more than one vote ?
LOL A quote from the Terry Pratchett books springs in my mind : the city of Ankh-Morpork is governed by a man called the Patrician, whose motto is "One man, one vote. I am the man, I get the vote". [img]graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] ... uh, sorry. [img]smile.gif[/img]

Question 5 of 5: Should the US just pull out of the UN all together?
Again, why ?
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