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It's easy to say "Democracy" ...

If you readers, faced with the choice between a semi-presidential system to a proportional Italian and French, go beyond the question "yes, but I where do I put the cross?" And you wonder if you ever feel represented by an electoral system that can not fully understand, you've come to the point where it could affect the proposal of direct democracy .

Inspired by the classical model of democracy greek (δημόυ-χράτοσ - Government of the People), is anything but a model of government buried and forgotten with the civilizations of the past. Switzerland is governed by this system since the thirteenth century, but in Bavaria, the largest and richest in the Land of the Federation of Germany, has chosen to direct democracy in 1995. And do not talk about case studies or isolated. We cite the California (de facto, the eighth industrial power of the earth), and other twenty-two the United States of America, although at different levels, the status of British Columbia in Canada, the city of Perth in Australia. More than 500 cities among the largest in the world have introduced many years participatory budgeting, which involves and empowers the people directly in the management of "public affairs". In Italy the experiences are less and less isolated and more effective. Bolzano, Rovereto and Treviso, Val Pusteria and the Region of Tuscany now some of the most striking examples.

The fundamental principles on which direct democracy are five: 1) the principle of popular sovereignty (not there is no higher authority of the people), 2) the principle of equality (everyone has the right to participate, each with equal decision-making power) 3) majority rule (the majority of voters decide) 4) The right of initiative ( each member of the assembly has the right proactive), 5) the principle of office (who is not participating in the Assembly-mandated decision-making to those who attend). So people should come together and, applying the above principles, decide on public affairs. The rules are few, clear, quick decisions, their immediate and effective.
And here arises a question: but you do not risk the administrative paralysis? There must address excessive spending? It is not unrealistic to think of changing a system based on the strength of political parties and economic lobbies? But the answers may come from some objective facts, such as, for example, the confidence of citizens in their political leaders, the disengagement and neglect of a government perceived as distant and disconnected from their daily lives, these are some of the elements denoting how representative democracy starts to show its limits.
Losses shot down over the centuries and the aberrations of all forms of totalitarianism, it is time to think of evolution really participatory and empowering the best form of government ever devised by man, evolution, as often happens, it can and must come from revisiting its roots.

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