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Through this system, in small groups, even in large cities, not only will bureaucracy, administrative privileges, individual and collective local powers be eliminated, but the active participation of individuals will increase, so that through their ideas they will contribute to solving the problems in their community. The ideas and proposals of a citizen, once accepted by the majority and having become public won't be the possession of those who have expressed them, but of the entire assembly. This detail eliminates praise and criticism, victory and defeat, prestige and contempt, power and authority to those who have brought up the proposal, thus avoiding the formation of winning or opposing groups so diffused nowadays and extremely harmful to a good social politic in favor of people. While it will be possible, through proper international legislation, to eliminate economic differences among states, it will be impossible to obtain the same for individuals, through the emanation of a law. It is not through compulsion that the submission to a law and its application on the part of citizens will be reached. Legislative compulsion, meaning obliging the rich in the name of the law to limit their wealth in favor of the less fortunate, or obliging a people to limit their needs in favor of a more equal distribution of resources, can only nurture that conflict and animosity that are so detrimental to equilibrium and peace. This goal can only be attained through the decision of an individual to willing submit to laws whose main purpose is the equal distribution of resources and wealth [84].
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