Permanent Minorities

A people should govern its own affairs,

And should be loth to deny others that,

Minority groups deserve their own chairs,

To plan and devise their own plot and plat.

Local government's a very fine thing,

But some groups are always minorities,

There's no town where they can elect a king,

They depend on 'lightened majorities.

We can and should help them to rule  

          themselves, 

With social contracts binding them, not us,

Let them create Elfland by taxing elves,

Let Faery be born, without any fuss.

Are there complexities?  Yes, they abound,

But the case for self-rule is surely sound.