Certificate of Advanced English B- Citizenship Today
The Ugly Truths
Martínez, Ma. del Carmen
auto-determination of deciding over their own life by moral legislation of laws. The objective of these mechanisms is to separate people from the order of the state.
Theoretically, in a Republic, politicians are supposed to act according to popular opinion and will, but as long as we continue keeping our distance we will always live under a semi-“oligarchic” regime.
We should not feel discouraged by the inefficiency of the political system that rules nowadays. People should stand up and fight for the rights and constitutional guarantees that we posses. Demonstrations for example, are a tool we have to exhibit our discomforts and to ask for a change, we should not look down on them, demonstrators are just citizens expressing themselves for the development of their community or society.
A proved example that direct civic engagement works, is popular assemblies. After the Argentinean crisis in 2001 when the governmental system