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Originally Posted by ak_aramis
Saying "We can't but you can" is no protection to the people, only the member states. It's worse than no protections at all for many of the people.
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It sure is. Worse than no protection for many of the people, that is. As I see it, it goes back to the formation of the Imperium and its early days. We had the Sylean Federation which, I posit, had a bill of rights, transforming into the Imperium and inviting the neighbors to join. Cleon I had two significant power groups to placate: the people of the Federation and the governments of the neighboring worlds. The first he allowed to keep their rights (or at least the belief in them) and the second he assured of local autonomy in all internal. Result: "We can't, but you can".
As I see it.
Hans