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

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
Countries in Europe have states too.
Thanks,
      GerardM

On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:

> On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 9:22 AM, Gerard Meijssen
> <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hoi,
> >  Easy you answer it yourself. The USA is one country under God, Europe
> is
> >  not.
> >  Thanks,
> >        GerardM
> >
> I've never referred to the USA as "one country under God", but this
> begs the question as to whether being "one country" matters at all.
> The USA is not "one state under God".  (I've never called it "one
> country under God" either, but that's irrelevant.)
>
> To look at it another way, chapters are non-profit organizations, and
> non-profit organizations are formed through the state and governed by
> state law (at least in the US, I don't know how it works in the EU).
>
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