[Foundation-l] Chapter-selected Board seats - brainstorming

[Anthony]

On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 8:24 AM, Ziko van Dijk <zvandijk at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On the long term, when the chapters chose board members, there will
>  raise the question how many votes a chapter has, if there will be one
>  vote per chapter etc. Whether a country has one or several chapters
>  might become important, and I wonder whether other chapters will be
>  fond of multiple chapters in another country. On the other side, when
>  the Foundation has to deal with chapters, it will be easier if the
>  number of chapters cannot be theoretically unlimited.
>  Therefore there should be the rule "one country, one chapter", to
>  avoid several problems.

And how does this eliminate any more problems than "one state, one
chapter"?  I note that even the term "country" is generally defined
with respect to the term "state".

If the EU has more than one chapter, why not the US?