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Demosciocracy
This is an important development: automation must not make human beings uniform; it must give them back time and therefore more freedom in the way they conduct their lives.
Principle — Liberation of human time
The purpose of robotisation and androidisation will be to progressively free human beings from arduous, repetitive work, or work indispensable merely to satisfy material needs.
The time thus freed belongs to the human being.
Everyone must be able to choose to deepen their knowledge, to study throughout their life, to research, to invent, to create and to take part in improving society, the environment and the technologies that serve humanity.
Whoever wishes to devote more of their life to knowledge and research must have the means to do so. Whoever simply aspires to a more serene family, cultural, artistic, sporting or contemplative life must enjoy the same dignity and the same rights.
Knowledge does not create a superior class. It creates a responsibility towards others.
Androids and artificial intelligences remain instruments in the service of humanity. The increase in their productivity must benefit the whole population and not lead to the concentration of wealth and power in a few hands.
Progress is then measured not by the quantity of goods consumed, but by the improvement of knowledge, freedom, serenity and the living conditions of all human beings, within the limits of the resources that the planet can sustainably provide.
erudition would no longer be reserved for those who had the opportunity to study in their youth. With a large part of material work carried out by machines, a person could learn at 20, 50 or 80 years of age and continue to bring their experience and knowledge to the community.
This progressively gives a true philosophy of civilisation to be placed after the fundamental constitutional principles
Demosciocracy is an organisation of society founded on the power of the people, knowledge, experience, competence, responsibility and the pursuit of the common good.
It organises society from its base: the citizen, human activities, the district and the territory.
Power is neither a profession nor a property.
Representing the population is a temporary mission.
Management is entrusted to people recruited for their skills, their experience and their results.
All responsibility implies oversight. Every person in charge must account for their action and may be replaced or dismissed.
Demosciocracy rests on three fundamental principles:
FREEDOM — EQUALITY — TRUTH
ARTICLE 1 — THE PEOPLE AND SOVEREIGNTY
1.1 — Principle of sovereignty
Sovereignty belongs to the people.
No person, family, organisation, corporation, company, economic or financial power may appropriate it or exercise it lastingly in its place.
Demosciocracy organises power from the base (territory) up to the top.
The citizen takes part in collective life from their district, the first unit of representation of the population and of the corporations.
Representation is not a profession. It is a temporary mission exercised in the service of the community.
The management of institutions is entrusted to people recruited for their skills, their experience and their results, under the permanent oversight of the representatives of the people and of the corporations.
No power is ever definitively acquired.
Every person in charge must account for their action and may be replaced or dismissed according to the rules of Demosciocracy.
1.2 — General organisation of power
The country is organised into:
7,040 districts;
352 territories;
20 districts per territory.
The district is the basic cell of representation.
The territory is the fundamental unit of management and the main foundation of Demosciocracy.
Power is built according to the following principle:
Citizens and corporations
→ Districts
→ Territory Councils
→ Chamber of the People and Chamber of Corporations
→ National leadership.
Information, needs and proposals rise from the citizens and the corporations to the Territory Councils, then to the two Chambers.
National orientations follow a separate circuit allowing their transmission and coordination towards the territories.
The national authority must manage and define the main lines of general policy for the country and external relations, but must not exercise what the territories are capable of organising and managing themselves.
Power comes from the base; management is entrusted to competence; oversight remains in the hands of the people and their representatives.
ARTICLE 2 — THE DISTRICT AND REPRESENTATION
2.1 — The district
Each territory comprises 20 districts.
Each district designates by drawing lots:
- one representative of the people;
- one representative of the corporations and activities.
They represent their district on the Territory Council. The latter will be the foundation of demosciocracy.
2.2 — Duration of representation
Representation is exercised for one year.
A person who has held this function may not be designated again to the same function before a period of twenty years.
This rotation allows the population to take part directly in collective life and prevents the creation of a profession of representative.
2.3 — Participation in the Council
The representatives take part in the work of the Territory Council, in particular during a weekly session.
They receive an allowance corresponding to the time devoted and to the costs necessary for carrying out their mission.
2.4 — Parity between women and men
Women and men have equal access to the responsibilities of Demosciocracy. Appointments must respect parity between women and men.
The methods of designation, including the drawing of lots, are organised in a transparent and verifiable manner in order to guarantee this parity of representation in the bodies concerned.
ARTICLE 3 — THE TERRITORY COUNCIL
3.1 — Composition
Each Territory Council comprises 40 members:
20 representatives of the people — 50%;
20 representatives of the corporations — 50%.
Equality between these two representations is a fundamental principle of Demosciocracy.
3.2 — Mission
The Council gathers the needs, proposals and information coming from the 20 districts.
It determines the orientations, priorities and needs of the territory.
It oversees their implementation.
The Territory Council is:
the eye and the hand of Demosciocracy in the territory.
3.3 — Professional management of the territory
The Council recruits a Director General of the Territory.
The Director General is not a representative. He or she is a professional recruited for their skills, their experience and their management ability.
He or she directs the services of the territory, recruits collaborators and implements the orientations decided by the Council.
He or she recruits the professional managers necessary for the functioning of the territory.
He or she remains in office as long as their action and results satisfy the Council and the population and as long as they respect the fundamental principles of Demosciocracy.
He or she may be replaced or dismissed at any time in the event of dissatisfaction, poor management, serious misconduct or failure to respect these principles.
The Council represents, guides and oversees.
The Director General directs, manages and executes.
ARTICLE 4 — AUTONOMY, BUDGET AND BALANCE OF THE TERRITORIES
4.1 — Autonomy
The territory enjoys broad autonomy in organising and managing the responsibilities entrusted to it.
It remains in control of the use of its resources in accordance with the Constitution and the common rules of the country.
Responsibility must be exercised at the level closest possible to the citizens.
The national authority provides the territories with a budget identical for all territories (allowing the decentralisation of large entities); it must in no case exercise what the territory must organise and manage efficiently itself.
4.2 — Territorial allocation
Each territory receives annually a national allocation calculated according to a rule common to the 352 territories.
This allocation takes into account in particular two fundamental elements:
the population of the territory
the surface area of the territory.
Population makes it possible to take into consideration the number of citizens to whom services must be provided.
Surface area makes it possible to take into consideration distances, infrastructure, networks, travel and the costs linked to the size of the territory.
Equality between territories therefore does not mean allocating an identical sum, but an equal one according to the criteria to be defined.
It means applying the same calculation rule to all territories.
Each year the two Chambers determine the resources available for the following year according to the resources of the country.
The formula for calculation and distribution must be public, simple and verifiable by all.
4.3 — Freedom of management
Once its allocation has been granted, the territory remains in control of its use.
The Territory Council defines its priorities according to the needs expressed by the districts, the citizens and the corporations.
The Director General organises and carries out this management under the oversight of the Council.
The territory receives according to a common rule and manages according to its realities and needs.
4.4 — Emulation between territories
Demosciocracy encourages positive emulation between the 352 territories.
The quality of their management is assessed in particular according to:
- quality of life;
- satisfaction of the population;
- quality of services;
- efficiency of management;
- savings actually achieved;
- economic and human development;
- the state of infrastructure;
- the quality of the environment.
The five territories that have obtained the best results receive an additional bonus the following year.
This bonus rewards the quality of management and may not be financed by reducing the normal allocation of the other territories.
Demosciocracy does not put citizens in competition; it puts the management qualities of the territories in emulation.
4.5 — Equality of the citizen throughout the country
Territorial autonomy may not create fundamental inequality between citizens.
Every citizen must be able to live, work, study, undertake and move freely throughout the country, whatever their district or territory of origin.
Fundamental rights and freedoms are identical throughout the country.
Every citizen must be able to benefit from a fair level of essential services, particularly in health, education, security, justice, mobility and access to collective services.
The distribution of resources between the territories must help maintain this balance.
A citizen who leaves one territory to live in another keeps the same rights, the same freedoms and the same fundamental protections.
The territories are autonomous in their management; the citizens remain equal throughout the country.
ARTICLE 5 — THE TWO NATIONAL CHAMBERS
5.1 — Constitution
Each Territory Council designates from among its members:
one representative to the Chamber of the People;
one representative to the Chamber of Corporations and Services.
Each of the two Chambers therefore comprises 352 representatives.
5.2 — Chamber of the People
The Chamber of the People represents the citizens and the territories.
It transmits to the national leadership the needs, difficulties, expectations and assessments coming from the territories.
It oversees the action of the national leadership, together with the other chamber, that of the corporations.
5.3 — Chamber of Corporations and Services
The Chamber of Corporations and Services represents the trades, activities, companies, services, know-how, sciences, techniques and other active forces of the country.
It gathers the needs of the territories and the proposals of the government team and takes part in drawing up the rules necessary for the functioning of the country.
5.4 — Common authority
The two Chambers jointly oversee the national leadership.
Fundamental decisions committing the country require their joint participation.
They may maintain or dismiss the national leadership according to the rules of Demosciocracy.
ARTICLE 6 — THE NATIONAL LEADERSHIP
6.1 — The candidate teams
The national leadership is provided by a team of 24 people.
The candidate teams are made up of citizens wishing to put their skills at the service of the country.
Each team presents:
- its programme;
- its objectives;
- its means;
- its national orientations;
- its external orientations.
6.2 — Choice by the population
The candidate teams are submitted to universal suffrage in a single round.
The four teams that come out on top are retained.
6.3 — Choice of the national leadership
The two Chambers examine the four teams and their programmes.
To be chosen, a team must obtain at least 75% of the votes according to the rules common to the two Chambers.
The population thus determines the four main possibilities and the representatives of the territories choose from among them the team responsible for the national leadership.
6.4 — Duration, oversight and dismissal
The national leadership may plan its action over a period of five to ten years, in order to have the time necessary to carry out its programme.
This duration gives it no automatic right to remain.
The national leadership remains under the permanent oversight of the two Chambers.
It may be dismissed when its programme is not respected, when its orientation is profoundly changed without agreement, when it commits serious misconduct or when it loses the necessary confidence.
Duration makes it possible to build; results and confidence make it possible to stay.
ARTICLE 7 — CIRCULATION OF POWER AND INFORMATION
Two complementary circuits organise Demosciocracy.
From the population to the national leadership
Citizens and corporations
→ Districts
→ Territory Councils
→ Two Chambers
→ National leadership.
This circuit allows realities, needs, proposals and difficulties to rise from the population.
From the national leadership to the territories
The orientations necessary for the whole country are transmitted to the territories by a coordination organisation.
Those responsible for this coordination do not substitute themselves either for the Territory Councils or for the Directors General.
They ensure the transmission, coordination and oversight of the missions common to the country.
The two circuits must remain separate so that the upward expression of the will of the citizens is never confused with the transmission of the decisions of the national leadership.
ARTICLE 8 — THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE TERRITORY
The territory directly assumes the responsibilities that can be exercised effectively at its level.
It organises in particular the services necessary for:
security;
health;
education;
the economy;
infrastructure;
the environment;
social life;
prevention;
mobility;
and the other essential needs of its population.
The territory adapts its organisation to its realities while respecting the fundamental rights common to all citizens.
National structures must not substitute themselves for the territories when these are capable of exercising a responsibility effectively.
ARTICLE 9 — JUSTICE, SECURITY AND COMMON RULES
Justice and security must be accessible as close as possible to the population.
The territory takes part directly in their organisation and has the means necessary for their functioning.
Fundamental freedoms, the equality of citizens and the principles of Demosciocracy remain common to the whole country.
No territorial rule may undermine these principles.
Proximity gives the territory the capacity to act; the Constitution guarantees the citizen equal rights everywhere in the country.
ARTICLE 10 — COMMON DEFENCE
Defence is a responsibility common to the whole country.
It nevertheless keeps a permanent link with the territories and their populations.
Its human and material resources are distributed in the territories according to needs, while remaining coordinated at national level.
Citizens practising the professions of defence form an integral part of the corporations and may take part in their representation according to the same principles as the other activities.
The coordination of defence is exercised under the oversight of the national institutions of Demosciocracy.
ARTICLE 11 — RESPONSIBILITY, OVERSIGHT AND DISMISSAL
Every person holding a responsibility must account for their action.
Professional leaders remain in office as long as their action is positive, their results satisfactory, they keep the necessary confidence and they respect the fundamental principles of Demosciocracy.
The dissatisfaction of the Councils, the Chambers or the population may lead to a review of their continuation in office.
Serious misconduct, corruption, abuse of power or violation of the fundamental principles may lead to dismissal according to a procedure that makes it possible to establish the facts.
No responsibility confers a permanent right to exercise power.
ARTICLE 12 — PURPOSE AND EVOLUTION OF DEMOSCIOCRACY
Demosciocracy places the organisation of society at the service of the human being.
It seeks the permanent improvement:
of freedom;
of equality;
of quality of life;
of knowledge;
of security;
of prosperity;
of justice;
of research;
of creation;
and of transmission to future generations.
Material wealth is a means of producing, creating and improving life. It is not the measure of the value of a human being.
Knowledge, experience, know-how, research and creation are essential riches of society.
Demosciocracy can never be considered definitively complete.
It must evolve thanks to the knowledge, experience and progress brought by successive generations, while preserving its fundamental principles.
No particular person or power may lastingly appropriate sovereignty.
The purpose remains:
