If the current one-state, one vote system was retained...
World Government should be an ideal towards which we gradually work. The obviously universal proble...
World Government should not be our ideal because it is blatantly less democratic than government on the nation-state model. The smaller the political unit, the more powerful is the individual vote. Individual citizens will always have more influence over local authorities and nation-state governments than they will over putative supranational entities. We value democracy and therefore oppose World Government because it dilutes the strength of an individual’s influence over policy. Voting rights would also be impossible to arrange fairly in a global parliament. If the current one-state, one vote system was retained then a coalition of small nations would be able to impose policies upon those states with a large majority of the world’s population. If representation was on the basis of population, then China and India would often be able to act together to impose policies upon the rest of the world.