[Foundation-l] The foundations of the Wikimedia Foundation (was: Wikimedia Council)

[Thomas Dalton]

> In a democratic state, a parliament (or actually the people) is the
> Final Authority.

The WMF isn't a democracy. The analogy of a parliament works, but only
if you think of it as being a parliament of a few hundred years ago.
The monarch was the final authority and delegated certain powers to
the parliament. I think that pretty accurately describes what Ant is
suggesting.