Recently a referendum Helvetian prohibited the construction of new minarets Switzerland. A result clearly racist. We have heard during this case many public comments disparaging the very principle of vox populi. The people are weak, he does not know, he's afraid, he should certainly not ask her opinion ... It was against the supposed ignorance of the people to the wisdom of the elites. But what wisdom? The xenophobic statements Nadine Morano and Brice Hortefeux? Or wisdom slave lobbies capitalists ... as in Copenhagen? No, direct democracy is not thrown out with the muddy water of the Swiss referendum. -- Of course, the Swiss referendum system is not a model. First, because the Constitution places the right of capitalist property beyond the reach of the Democratic field. ...

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