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“Every law the people has not ratified in person is null and void – is, in fact, not a law.„ (Rousseau 1762, III: 15). Rousseau’s statement, extreme as it may be by actually describing “representative democracy„ as an oxymoron, points to an important normative minimal condition of representative democracies: Somehow the “will of the people„ has to be represented in law-making.
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Brunner, M. (2013). Public Opinion and Parliamentary Activities. In: Parliaments and Legislative Activity. Studien zur Neuen Politischen Ökonomie. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-19612-1_3
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