reverence for the constitution

[Brad De Long]

>Incidentally, once one escapes the mystique of language as somehow
>indicating an entity created by God the "right" of self-determination
>for geographical fragments like Kosovo or the 11 states of the
>confederacy simply disappears. The map is a better indication of
>the "units" for such self-determination than language or heredity. And
>a look at the map would seem to indicate that the proper unit for
>self-determination in Kosovo's part of the world would include (1)
>All of the former Yugoslavia (2) Albania (3) Bulgaria, and (4) part
>of Italy. *That* would make a sensible nation.
>
>Carrol

You do realize that this "proper unit" consists of the European provinces
of the Byzantine Empire at the end of the first millennium?

Brad DeLong