Demosciocracy — The power of the Chambers and the Executive

1. The Territory: the fundamental basis of power

Demosciocracy rests first and foremost on the Territory. It is the fundamental unit of representation, of organization and of bringing up the needs of the population.

Each Territory has its Council, constituted according to the fundamental principle of balance:

50% representatives of the People and 50% representatives of the Corporations and Services, representing the economic and professional activities and the active forces of the Territory.

This organization must never be reversed: power starts from the Territory and rises up to the national institutions.

Each Territory thus appoints its representatives to the two national Chambers:

• the Chamber of the People, directly representing the citizens and the Territories;
• the Chamber of Corporations and Services, representing the professional and economic activities and the services society needs.

As representatives are renewed according to the annual principle laid down by Demosciocracy, the Chambers are continually renewed from the base. They therefore do not constitute a permanent political class.

2. The two Chambers: the center of national power

The two Chambers bring together the representation of all the French Territories.

Together they constitute the national decision-making center.

They draw up the common rules, define the major orientations of the country, determine the national missions and oversee their fulfilment.

The principle is simple:

the Territories bring up the needs; the Chambers weigh them, organize them and decide; the Executive implements their decisions.

There must always be movement in both directions.

Territories → Chambers → Executive → Territories

but also:

Territories → Executive → Chambers

Thus, when a national decision meets a difficulty in its application, the information must be able to rise immediately. The Executive then presents the observed difficulties to the Chambers and may propose adjustments to them.

It does not, however, decide alone on a new fundamental orientation: the decision belongs to the two Chambers.

3. Recruitment of the Executive

The Executive does not come from a permanent political class.

Teams capable of providing the executive leadership of the country publicly present their organization, their skills, their methods and their ability to fulfil the missions defined for the country.

Recruitment takes place in two stages.

In a first stage, all French citizens take part in a national vote. This vote selects the four teams that come out on top.

In a second stage, the two Chambers examine these four teams and choose the one that will receive responsibility for the Executive.

The People thus take part directly in the initial selection, while the representatives from all the Territories make the final choice.

The selected team does not, however, receive a power independent of the Chambers.

It receives a mission of execution.

4. Function of the Executive

The Executive is the administrative and operational hand of the two Chambers.

Its fundamental function is to turn their decisions into concrete actions.

It directs the national administration needed for this execution, coordinates the major common missions and passes the national orientations on to the structures responsible for carrying them out.

It must also ensure the reverse movement: gather the difficulties, results, needs and proposals coming from the Territories and present them to the two Chambers.

The Executive therefore has a capacity to make proposals arising from its experience of execution.

But proposing is not deciding.

When it considers that a rule should be changed, that an organization is functioning poorly or that an expense is unnecessary, it informs the Chambers, provides the necessary information and possibly proposes a solution. The Chambers decide.

The Executive then applies that decision.

5. Accountability and revocation

The Executive remains permanently accountable to the two Chambers.

It does not hold a power guaranteed for a period that would allow it to oppose them durably.

If it no longer carries out its missions properly, if it departs from the decisions of the Chambers, if it becomes ineffective or if serious misconduct is found, the two Chambers may end its functions according to the constitutional rules provided.

The principle must be that of permanent accountability:

a function exists for as long as it is properly exercised.

The same logic must apply to the main officials placed under the authority of the Executive.

6. Territories and Regions: two different functions

The Region must not become a political level above the Territory.

The Territory remains autonomous in its areas of competence and constitutes the basis of Demosciocracy.

The Region is mainly a relay for the organization, coordination and oversight of certain major national missions when an organization extending beyond the limits of a single Territory is necessary.

Education provides an example.

The two Chambers determine the major common orientations: fundamental knowledge, national objectives, training requirements and principles ensuring general equality among citizens.

The Executive organizes their implementation.

The Regions may provide the coordination and oversight needed for this application.

But the Territories retain the ability to bring up their realities, their difficulties and their needs.

The system therefore never works solely from the top down.

It works constantly in both directions.

7. Defence and major national functions

Certain missions naturally require a single national organization.

Defence and the armed forces are the main example.

They fall under the orientations and oversight of the two Chambers, their operational implementation being entrusted to the Executive and to the competent professional structures.

Other major common functions may follow a comparable organization when the interest of the country as a whole requires unity of operation.

It will nevertheless be necessary to distinguish precisely, in the Constitution, what truly falls under the national level and what must remain the responsibility of the Territories.

8. A deliberately light national administration

Demosciocracy must avoid the proliferation of administrations, bodies, commissions and agencies whose functions overlap.

Every administrative structure must correspond to an identifiable and necessary mission.

When a body no longer has any demonstrable usefulness, when its function can be performed by an existing structure or when it constitutes an administrative duplicate, it must be possible to abolish it.

The administration is a tool in the service of the population, and not an organization intended to ensure its own permanence.

Digital technologies and artificial intelligence may make it possible to automate a large share of administrative tasks, checks and exchanges of information.

The objective is twofold: to achieve effective oversight while considerably reducing unnecessary formalities for citizens and businesses.

9. Finances, taxes and redistribution

The Executive also ensures, under the authority of the two Chambers, the organization of the collection of national resources.

The level of levies must be limited to what is necessary for the functioning of the collectively decided missions.

Revenues must then be allocated and redistributed according to transparent rules allowing:

the functioning of common services, the national missions, the resources needed by the Territories and the indispensable solidarity between the different parts of the country.

The Chambers set the rules and oversee their application.

The Executive collects, administers and redistributes in accordance with these decisions.

Computer systems and artificial intelligence must allow permanent oversight of financial flows and reduce administrative costs, without multiplying the constraints weighing on businesses and citizens.

10. General principle of the demosciocratic Executive

The whole system can ultimately be summed up by this chain:

THE PEOPLE AND THE CORPORATIONS
↓
THE TERRITORIES
↓
CHAMBER OF THE PEOPLE + CHAMBER OF CORPORATIONS AND SERVICES
↓
DECISION AND ORIENTATION
↓
EXECUTIVE
↓
ADMINISTRATIVE AND NATIONAL IMPLEMENTATION
↓
REGIONS AND TERRITORIES ACCORDING TO THEIR COMPETENCES
↓
RESULTS, NEEDS AND DIFFICULTIES
↓
FEEDBACK TO THE EXECUTIVE AND THE TWO CHAMBERS

The essential principle is therefore:

The Territories constitute the basis of power. The two Chambers, drawn from the Territories, decide the common orientations. The Executive, recruited with the participation of the People and then chosen by the two Chambers, administers and executes their decisions. It reports permanently to the Chambers and may propose to them the adjustments made necessary by the experience of execution.