[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Pennsylvania

[Dan Rosenthal]

I understand, but the other ones are, and it's another example of why  
there are independant state organizations instead of a broad national  
one doing everything

-dan
On Jul 12, 2007, at 11:59 PM, Michael Snow wrote:

> Dan Rosenthal wrote:
>> On Jul 11, 2007, at 8:40 PM, Daniel Mayer wrote:
>>> The legal differences between states are minor enough for plenty of
>>> national membership
>>> organizations to exist.
>> Which largely have independently registered and incorporated state
>> chapters/organizations, that are independent of (but subservient to)
>> the national organization. You have NOW (the organization) and then
>> NOW of Illinois. The national Democratic Party. The Democratic Party
>> of Florida. The Jewish Federation. The Jewish Federation of
>> California. The American Bar Association. The Florida Bar  
>> Association.
>> The South Carolina Bar Association (which I can assure you has
>> extremely different laws than Florida does).
> The ABA and the various state bar associations are really not good
> illustrations of your point here. State bar associations are not
> subservient to or even affiliated with the ABA, which is purely a  
> trade
> and lobbying association. Rather, the state bar associations are
> licensing bodies that determine the qualifications for attorneys to
> practice in that state's courts, and subservient to whoever has the
> ultimate authority over those qualifications (commonly the state's
> highest court). Anyway, they're quasi-public entities with obligations
> to serve the entire state, and focused pretty exclusively on their
> state. Probably not the most useful model for us.
>
> --Michael Snow
>
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