Citizens' Initiative & Referendum
Many people have expresssed discontent with the way democracy
works and there are different opinions as to what should be done to
improve it. In Britain, for instance, there are plans to reform the
second chamber of parliament and perhaps to change the system for
electing members of parliament.
We propose another improvement, namely to introduce the right of
citizens to introduce their own proposals or laws to be put to the
people's vote and the right to change or veto laws passed by
parliament. An agreed number of supporting signatures must be
collected to start these procedures. This type of direct democracy,
side by side with representative democracy, is already well tried
in Switzerland, the USA and elsewhere. New systems of communication
such as the internet may prove to be helpful for improving and
reforming both types of democracy.
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