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    Default Re: how self-evident is democracy?

    Quote Originally Posted by Rhyfelwyr View Post
    Sure the individual politician must appeal to you for your vote, but you still signed over your right to protest against the wider political system. As your constitution says, you have the "right to designate the rulers of the state", but no more. You, and the people as a whole, are considered to have delegated all their sovereignty to the state when they granted it its powers.

    You have no right to depose it if it fails to serve your own good. In, on the other hand, can remove the whole system of government if I don't like it.
    Not true Article 6.1 clearly states the people have the right of final appeal in all matters of National policy hence we have to have a referendum for the EU stuff so the people are very much in charge here, but I take your point this is not generally the case elsewhere.
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