Agile and sensitive elephants

A couple in masks in front of a statue of the late Chinese leader Mao Zedong at a university in central Shanghai.Aly Song / reuters

Protect ourselves from external risks.

That is the original reason for maintaining the States: they are tools to put many people in agreement on a common basic objective.

In parallel, the democratic ones would also become formidable systems of power distribution, as a result that a democratic state of law is a machine that tries to administer decisions between groups with necessarily different interests, but with a common base ...

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