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This report comes from a pen of considerable scientific authority in parliamentary law, and it is clear from reading it that he has used the great authorities in the discipline, such as Eugène Pierre. It is based on a philosophical choice: the choice of oligarchy, in other words, in the language of Aristotle, 'the rule of a few'.
Thus, thirty or so MEPs (session presidents, and those who impose penalties, hear those penalised and confirm the penalties) will be responsible for supervising their colleagues. As all Members owe their position to sovereignty, be it popular or national, it is sovereignty itself that will find itself under supervision.
France invented parliamentary sovereignty back in 1791, supplanting popular sovereignty. However, as Parliament, by virtue of its composition, represented only one social class – the bourgeoisie and the other so-called liberal professions – it seized popular or national sovereignty for its own benefit.
In this report, this little band of oligarchs is setting up instruments to neutralise any representatives of the people who might get through the electoral and media filters.
Consequently, this report, which should have restricted itself to a single word – 'freedom' of the people's representatives – can be summed up with a different word: oligarchy."@en1
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