[extropy-chat] A Stateless Civilization?

BillK pharos at gmail.com
Mon Dec 5 00:19:32 UTC 2005


On 12/5/05, Technotranscendence wrote:
> An institution having a monopoly on the use of legitimate force in a
> given geographic area.  (As a corollary, in any contest between it and
> its subjects, it [the state] decides the outcome -- i.e., no one inside
> it has the legal right to appeal to an authority outside it.  If it
> ceases to have this power, then it ceases to be a state.)
>


Brits can take their case to the European Court after they have
exhausted UK court procedures. The European Court quite often rules
against the UK government and instructs them to recompense the
complainant.

Does that mean the UK is not a state?

BillK



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