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In article <1dcauhINNaf5@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> unruh@physics.ubc.ca (William Unruh) writes:
}starr@genie.slhs.udel.edu (Tim Starr) writes:
}
}>Not really.  Consent and coercion are opposites; if Switzerland has a high
}>degree of consent compared to other countries, then it has a low level of
}>coercion by the same standard.
}
}Not necessarily, a government can have a high degree of consent by a
}large majority, and still be increadibly coercive to a minority.

Perhaps you don't know what I referred to when I said that Switzerland has
citizen vetoes.  A minority of of the Swiss electorate can nullify legislation.
My understanding is that one third is required to do this, and this doesn't
completely bar oppression of smaller minorities, but I stand by my claim that
Switzerland thus has the highest degree of consent by the governed in the
world.

True, there still may be oppression, but less than anywhere else.


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