re: #31 Sharmuta

I think it’s somewhat more complicated — nations in Europe don’t have a “division of powers” — not like in the United States with independent branches of government overseeing the other branches (this kind of oversight prevents, imo, corruption and bad governance…but, it doesn’t exist in Europe — you get parliamentary systems, and, say, in Germany, you get “proportional representation”, etc., then on top of that you’ve got the EU (a completely hide-bound bureaucracy)…I think the American system is unique and it can’t be easily transferred…(even the Europe legal system — their courts — are wholly different — you get in Continental Europe judges (not juries), and the judges are “activists” really, they don’t shut up during a trial…(usually you get three of them, etc., yakking away…)