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One might suspect that the positive effects of freedom of political association are so obvious that at least highly developed democratic states could move toward this freedom more or less by themselves. After all, this freedom is about nothing less than a hitherto withheld fundamental right, about a more meaningful experience of politics, about overcoming a global war, and about the future of political civilization.
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And also specialized either on national or on local and regional politics. For details see the neocratic draft constitution at www.neokratieverfassung.de.
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As mentioned in Chap. 7:
The concept of a Permanent Constitutional Council was developed in Wehner (1993).
For a short version see http://www.reformforum-neopolis.de/files/der_staat_auf_bewaehrung_gekuerzte_neufassung_2001.pdf.
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Wehner, B. (2020). The Long March to New Freedom. In: Freedom, Peace, and Secession. SpringerBriefs in Political Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39523-0_10
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