Given the distance between my previous role as a convention gate-crasher and my newfound role as convention keynoter, I had some cause to worry that my appearance in Boston might not go very well.
I think Kant's reason is that actual men and women gathered in real constitutional convention would have different interests, values, aims, and it would also be differences of bargaining power and differences of knowledge among them.
I fully support UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in his Global Education First Initiative and the work of UN Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown and the respectful president of the UN General Assembly Vuk Jeremic.
And on top of that, this counsel selects the Secretary General, who is then formally appointed by the General Assembly, the main representative body of the U.N.
And Cuba's new leader wasn't elected by the people but rather Cuba's legislative branch, its national assembly, which almost always votes unanimously for whatever the president proposes.