Depends on your definition of 'success.' My definition involves government by the People, of the People, for the People among other things, and I truly have a hard time seeing how the Union can obey that principle without either giving up a whole lot of authority or giving up the notion that the state and federal level should be intertwined the way they currently are.

But I will not harp on that any further in this thread, since legitimacy and federalisation was the subject of this thread, and I don't want to threadjack this one by turning it into a discussion of where the Union should go from here. My own views on that matter are summed up in this comment. I am, of course, open to other suggestions as to how to achieve transparency and accountability, but in my thinking those two objectives are of paramount importance. Virtually any other subject is secondary, where the Union is concerned.

- Jake

Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.