Okay, but that's just to control the power of the monopoly federal government, which is STRICTLY limited in what it can do (unfortunately, most Americans have forgotten that part). To control the power of the states (which is where nearly everything SHOULD be done), there is nothing that a state can do to prevent someone from leaving or entering. If a state does a bad job, its citizens will leave. So in a wiki context, that would point to forking of articles when disagreements cannot be resolved. So, most famously, there would be two pages about Cyprus. Some people would link to one, and some to the other, and others to the disambiguation page. Likely this has been proposed before, and I'm simply ignorant of the result of the discussion.

On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 9:08 PM, Virgilio A. P. Machado vam@fct.unl.ptwrote:

Dear Mr. Will Johnson,

Three hurrays for the separations of powers, checks and balances and full accountability to oneself, others and the foundations of a civilized community.