|
|
|
|
Site Map. Click [+] to expand.
|
|
Click 'More' for more detail,
'Next Page' (right arrow), or
'Quick Tour' (control right arrow).
If in a drill down:
you can use Shift-Down or Shift-Up,
or Ctrl-Shift up or down to exit.
If looping over a theme:
you can use Shift-Right or Shift-Left, or
Ctrl-Shift-Left or Right to exit.
When the option is available,
using Alt key toggles the option:
Alt-a - audio,
Alt-i - iconic menu,
Alt-m - music,
Alt-v - video.
View notes for page: Ctrl-Up.
Return to main page: Ctrl-Down
What do you think?
Click Feedback to email us or have your say at the end of most pages.
|
Acknowledge coding help from:
W3Schools: Best free web coding tutorials.
StackOverflow
Flaticon
ExtendsClass - PHP syntax checker
Tree Menu
Copyright (c) 2006 Mackley F. Pexton
User ID:
LFD= EN/EN/ SRC=Opt2Get
LNM= EN TX#= '' SW#= ''
DVC= 'Dtop' BRS= 'Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)' SWF= 'AllWebSoftware'
SIT= 'GlobalBeliefs.org'
A= 'www.globalbeliefs.org'
RET= '' or ''
SLF= '/EN/7_4.php' CUR= '7_4'
NXT= '7_5'
MVM= ','
'1,1'
'1,1'
|
|
7.4 Area
Government Obligations
Version
1.2 January 2019 (Previous
Version)
We ask these questions in the introduction (Section
0.1.6 – paragraph 38):
What are the responsibilities of local, state and
national governments? Should area governments own and run natural
monopolies, or have social welfare programs? Should we outsource government
services to private companies, or paramilitary, police and corrections duties
to international corporations? Should nations cede some of their sovereignty
to international bodies such as the World Court, World Trade Organisation and
World Bank or similar bodies? Do we want the United Nations to become a
world government? Should we worry about ‘Big Brother’ and excessive state
power? Can national governments control multinational corporations?
|
This Chapter focuses on the role of area
governments, that is, government over a limited and defined area, such as a local
council, shire, county, city, state or nation. “Area government” includes
approaches to government over the whole area of the world, such as the United
Nations, and this Chapter will cover its limitations, advantages, alternatives,
supplements and reforms.
Chapter 7.1 (Political Processes) covered
some of the general aspects of political organizations and political theory –
which is usually about nation states.
Chapter 7.2 (Economics and Business
Obligations) covers the interactions between labour, capital and technology to
produce goods and services and generate income for corporations and
individuals. Most of this applies whether the national government is a full
democracy (such as the USA), a restricted democracy (such as Russia), an
erstwhile Communist state (such as China), a Kingdom (such as Saudi Arabia) or
a tyranny (such as Syria).
Chapter 7.3 (Democratic Obligations) shows
how many organizations, and society in general, are best managed as democracies.
Democratic principles are ideal for area governments, rather than kingdoms, or totalitarian
or tyrannical rule, but we must have controls over the use of force.
Traditional history focused on changes to
the areas governed and their rulers. Modern history covers wider issues, such
as technology, arts, science and impacts on ordinary men and women. Modern
political theory must take these matters into account also, as well as how the
consent of the governed is obtained, and how to best manage the people and
resources within the area governed.
We plan to look at how area
governments can can optimize the welfare of their people under the following headings:
|
1. Area Government Roles:
|
What should area government do?
|
Is it reasonable to break down this area into
these topics at this level?
Click on feedback, or add a comment below, to
tell us if you agree or disagree, or suggest improvements.
|
|
2. Independent Commissions:
|
How can we minimise bad politics?
|
|
3. Economic Management:
|
Can nations control big business?
|
|
4. Democratic Government:
|
How do we get the best rule?
|
|
5. Law and Order and Coercion:
|
How to manage law & enforcement?
|
|
6. Welfare Provisions:
|
What is the minimum safety net?
|
|
7. Uniting Nations:
|
Reforming the UN and its agencies!
|
After going through these topics,
our current conclusions, as stated in the overview, are as follows:
Area governments are responsible within their borders for matters
involving universal compliance and coercion – so they must be democratic and
use minimal force – including the environment, public health, law and order,
financial stability, contracts, public utilities, communications, natural
monopolies and basic rights.
more Statement
38
The following pages explain how we
justify these conclusions.
Members can tell us (publicly) what they think of this page. How can we improve it? Enter your comments.
Anyone can tell us (privately) what they think directly by email: click on 'Feedback' below.
Be the first to add a comment on this page.
* * * * * * *
|
Do you know of any great music that would go well with this
page?
Or any of the other pages?
IF
YOU DO, CLICK FEEDBACK.
It could be in any language, or have no words, or just be
instrumental. From pop, to classical, a cappella to orchestral!
Examples of the
music we seek:
● On
the Tenets page, accessed from the main menu, our current choice is a Song
Without Words from Mendelssohn (who died in 1847), Opus 14 Nbr 4, called Contentment. Check it out: the Tenets
conclude most
times, I have a measure of content.
● Chapter 2.3 covers the solar system
and Earth’s development. In there somewhere, surely we should be
hearing Gustav
Holst's The Planets, which premiered 100 years ago. There is a movement for
each of the planets.
Please tell as
much identifying information as you can: a link, and/or the name of the piece
and a person’s name may be enough, but if you know it please also send
the artist/performer, composer/lyricist, year written, year recorded, record
label, copyright owner, or similar details.
We have to worry
about copyright: acknowledge it, and not infringe on it. Music that is
out of copyright, or was never copyrighted (eg like real, ie very old, folk
music) is good. Some material is ‘open source’ allowing others
to use it for free. For newer restricted copyright music we may have to
seek permission to play it, but we can’t afford to pay for it. It
depends on the circumstances. In general, copyright in text, images and music lasts
for 70 years after the year of the creator's death, even if the creator does
not own copyright.
|
|
English (English)
