1. Rousseau and an Alternative to Democracy
Contrarily, in fact, Jean-Jacques Rousseau in "The social contract " stated that there is no possibility for the people to delegate its power and be represented, since from that moment the power would no longer belong to the people itself who, at the same time, would lose its freedom. ... For liberalism it must be intended the model of state in which the power from the people is transferred to a government who exercise it in accordance with the constitution; in a democracy, instead, the power cannot belong to few representatives but it "lies with everybody " (Bobbio: 1988, 1). ... Democracy, a...
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