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Hjalmar Branting

The equality among all members of the League, which is provided in the statutes giving each state only one vote, cannot of course abolish the actual material inequality of the powers concerned.

Hjalmar Branting

Equality

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Even though every member of the League has the same voting rights, this formal rule does not change the real differences in their actual power and influence. In other words, legal equality in decision-making does not eliminate the unequal strength or resources that each state possesses.

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