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Yeah, but the problem is that you couldn't have that in america. You've got 50 states. How could you hope to have a representative parliment out of that? It's troublesome enough in nations that adopt that sort of system which are smaller and culturally homogenous. They've got their own problems.
It's not a crazy form of government. We do try to accomodate what aspects of parliment we can, that's what the Senate is. A parliment of the states. But scale does matter. It almost matters even more with modern communication rather than less. Sure, lag time in communication is diminshed but the frequency of that communication and the number participating in it is both increased. Trying to administrate an entire continent directly that way would be very silly.
Right, the US system is completely different and it'd have to dissolve the Constitution in order to form a completely different form of government. That, obviously, has its own set of problems. I was just pointing out that his idea in the abstract isn't that crazy since most western governments have an executive that is essentially an elected "council".
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