TRUST THE PEOPLE,
COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE
RETHINKING EUROPE TOGETHER

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Defining the different powers

More than 200 years ago, the work of Montesquieu served as a basis for determining an organization in 3 powers: Legislative, Executive and Judicial. This vision is probably unsuitable for the current organization. What about education? The Media? Military power? Should a single Executive power decide everything . Furthermore, the separation of powers is biased by political parties, lobbies or worse, corruption. This is why our first work will be to determine the different powers to be distinguished in the constitution. Then, for each, what should be the responsibility of Europe or of each State and what processes must be put in place to propose and decide on laws or determine those responsible.

True Democracy as a compass.

Better guarantor of the separation of powers, Democracy is the ability of the people to decide, at any time, on things that concern them. A Democracy can have flaws. The most frequently raised are populism and the time-consuming aspect. We must distinguish "the obligation to vote for all laws" of "the ability to vote for each law". Likewise, "Vote" without being "Informed" does not guarantee the quality of the vote. True Democracy is a rampart against the excesses of an electoral system which tends to favor, temporarily or in the long term, oligarchy.

Liquid Democracy as a less time-consuming democratic alternative to systems electoral

In liquid democracy, the citizen's representative is not the winner of an election but the one personally chosen by the latter to represent him. In addition, if the representative does not vote as the citizen wishes, the latter can vote themselves. This method of designation is more respectful of the citizen and allows it to be as effective as the current electoral system.

Shared democracy to highlight collective intelligence and distribute the burden of work

In shared democracy, political decisions are distributed equitably throughout the population. Each citizen therefore works on one or more social issues and the proposals made are the result of the work of the citizens of the group.

Consensual democracy as a solution to populism and other biases of simple majority voting

Consensual democracy requires that a decision take into account the results of votes within several individual profile groups. For example, the group of men, women, over 50 years old, under 30 years old, working people…. To be accepted, the absolute majority of the general group is no longer sufficient. The decision must be accepted by each group independently. A society of 60% men could not impose a solution on women without their agreement. Thus, the agreement of certain groups will be able to avoid populist excesses.

The Citizen Initiative Referendum

In democracy, citizens must have a means, only citizen and in no way linked to an administrative or oligarchic filter, to submit proposals to all citizens. This is the objective of the RIC.

Further qualify the voting method

The binary Yes/No ballot where the question is imposed is a classic but mediocre approach. Voting requires taking an interest in the issue and becoming informed. Expressing one's vote is ultimately a tiny part of the time that the citizen devotes to it and its simplicity can be extremely detrimental to the future reading of the result. Is the proposal urgent? Is it important enough to justify the budget that will have to be allocated to it? Should we make it a priority? What is the voter's membership level? Thus, by making the number of responses and information collected on a vote more complex, reading the result can provide an answer that is more consistent with the problem.