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Originally posted by Nic Name
It's unfortunate if intellectual critique of the United States Constitution with you is only possible when you're discussing it with another American.
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That's the second time you've ignored responding the hypothetical that would add a personal dimension to the issue for you.
You're perfectly fine with telling US states why they should surrender their soverignty to a top-heavy Federation, but here's an opportunity to put your intellectual money where your metaphorical mouth is: show us how much you believe in large centralized governments by telling us you'd accept in one where you were a member of a small minority.
But offered two opportunities to debate that point you'd rather sulk. Come on back when you're truly willing to *debate*, rather than simply flinging criticism of others around. Such as: "...there are not 10, or 50, such codes crying for law reform, as in some other countries. " The crying you hear isn't our codes. It's just you, calling for us to fix something that isn't broken.
My point about diversity of Canadian culture wasn't that it "isn't diverse". My point was that it doesn't span as widely as US culture does, because the US population is ten times larger; it draws from many more sources. That's not because our culture is "better", it's just a statistical result of an order-of-magnitude increase.
Ferinstance...New York, Maryland and New Jersey collectively have a population about equal to Canada. (Strangely enough, they have very similar laws about a lot of things.) . Texas and Pennsylvania taken together make a population about the size of the UK or France: twice the size of Canada's.
Our laws aren't "crying out for reform"; you're just comparing apples and oranges.
The US isn't run like the UK or France or Canada is, because it's a different kind of organization by design; externally we're a soverign nation, but internally we're way different from Canada or France. (We have the Brits to thank for that, kicking them out was the main reason we federated in the first place.)
In some ways we're more like what the EU wants to be when it grows up, but in other ways we're 'way different because we're traditionally wary of collectivisim and socialism; as the Soviet experience has shown they don't scale well.
Quadruple our population in the same land area and you'd have China. Look what wonderful things centralized control by a colllectivist government has done for them....and they only killed a population about the size of Canada in establishing it.
They even have socialized medicine... :-)