{"product_id":"our-common-cause-establishing-the-political-power-we-lack-9782315010967","title":"Our common cause: Establishing the political power we lack","description":"\"The people, in a country that is not a democracy (and France cannot be), can only speak and act through their representatives\" (Abbé Sieyès, 1789) I am not a \"citizen\" (a citizen is autonomous, he votes his own laws), I am only an \"elector\", a political child who undergoes the law voted by someone else than me. Our representative regime is an antidemocratic project, deliberate, voluntary, from the beginning, and the popular political impotence that it locks up is the primary cause of economic and social injustices. With the citizens' initiative referendum (RIC), the people take the first step in a constituent process. It writes itself the rules of representation. The constituent citizens, and soon the others, those who look at them and judge that it is a good idea, are in the process of finding a common cause: to institute ourselves the political power that we lack. In a people that has become constituent, and therefore vigilant, there is no room for tyrants.\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-12434558\"\u003eEtienne Chouard\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Max Milo Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/19\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 120\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.28lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.88h x 5.12w x 0.25d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9782315010967\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 2315010969\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POL\"\u003ePolitical Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POL022000\"\u003eConstitutions\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Max Milo Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44447744131309,"sku":"9782315010967","price":24.52,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_53511915-087a-4da8-a1d8-77fe53e195b0.jpg?v=1700296095","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/our-common-cause-establishing-the-political-power-we-lack-9782315010967","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}