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Amending the Constitution with Professor Levinson

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Do You Think Vermont Has the Same Voting Power as the United States?

i don't think it follows from a respect for whatever you think stateness brings, that a state should be treated as a really and truly sovereign entity in which now all o the sovereigns are equal. Fig has the same voting power as the united states. That's one of the reasons that very few people take the general assembly seriously. The important arm of the u. N is tha security, which is crippled because the five powers that won world war two have a veto power. And it really doesn't make sense in the modern world that france or even the uk. Have more power than germany or japan or india.

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