BTW - Jeroen - a constitutional monarchy is a form of republican government....
How's that?
Under a population-based system, China's population should be measured as being approximately 5,000. This is the number of people who are actually represented by the Chinese government, and this body should reflect that.
However, to be consistent with that policy, the population of *every* country should then be measured as the number of people who voted that country's government into power.
>Or should another criterion be used to allocate power? If so what?
Personally..... the only acceptable solution I see for the medium-term is a somewhat reformed UN, that nevertheless is mostly consultative in nature, and that does not prevent the US from doing what needs to be done.
IOW, you want an international organisation in which countries may give their opinion, but in which the US unilaterally makes all the decisions.
That's not democracy, that's dictatorship.
Jeroen "Make love, not war" van Baardwijk
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