Re: consensus

on 2/1/05 6:06 PM, [email protected] at [email protected] wrote:

> Consensus? An interesting tid-bit of knowledge is that the last country
> on Earth (That I know of) that was operated under a form of consensus
> since mediaeval times was the tiny Coprincipality of Andorra, high in the
> mountains between France and Spain. A few years back they dropped
> the whole thing and switched over to a constitutional government. I
> think this was done because of becoming part of United Europe, not
> because the consensual government didn’t work. I visited this quaint
> little country (under 500 square kilometers and pop. around 70,000) and
> was impressed by how nice a place it is.

a modern day model of consensus government is the country of iceland, and i
heard most of the representatives are women....i need to go and study their
style of meeting, etc...curious how they operate and where the inspiration
came from?????...quakers, one of the more peaceful religions of the world
operates on some form of consensus also i have heard....aloha,

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