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14<br />
DEMOCRACY TODAY<br />
The community itself consciously establishes limits to self-determination<br />
power, in order to protect itself from occasional majorities.<br />
But there are non-explicit cases of political universe constriction,<br />
which result from choices that are not shown as choices. In a very actual<br />
example, the decisions on economics usually are not presented as decisions,<br />
but as inevitable conducts, policies and ruling. This results from<br />
its naturalization and mathematization. Some questions keep “naturally”<br />
and “obviously” out of discussion, as the gravitational law: who could<br />
deliberate about it? Nobody but a mad person would discuss the competition<br />
as a natural law of economical life - or that a good place in the global<br />
trade system is the main task of any country’s external policy. [3]<br />
Another question is related to this: the tendency to uniformization<br />
of opinion, favored by the exclusion of possibilities of communitarian<br />
and personal self-determination. Falsification finally builds reality.<br />
The ideological affirmation of a certain order of coexistence as natural,<br />
rebuilds the world as it values for us, and then that is converted into<br />
nature. In consequence of the narrowing of political horizon, we are<br />
getting to be more and more identical, unanimous, in our fundamental<br />
views. This homogeneity is reflected in the insipid programs of political<br />
parties, very hard to distinguish.<br />
2. Philosophy as Struggling<br />
The pursuit of a genetic sense for Politics requires a clear and relevant<br />
meaning for Philosophy. We would like to suggest a not academic but<br />
e das associações sindicais; f) A coexistência <strong>do</strong> sector público, <strong>do</strong> sector priva<strong>do</strong> e <strong>do</strong><br />
sector cooperativo e social de propriedade <strong>do</strong>s meios de produção; g) A existência de<br />
planos económicos no âmbito de uma economia mista; h) O sufrágio universal, directo,<br />
secreto e periódico na designação <strong>do</strong>s titulares electivos <strong>do</strong>s órgãos de soberania, das<br />
regiões autónomas e <strong>do</strong> poder local, bem como o sistema de representação proporcional; i)<br />
O pluralismo de expressão e organização política, incluin<strong>do</strong> parti<strong>do</strong>s políticos, e o direito<br />
de oposição democrática; j) A separação e a interdependência <strong>do</strong>s órgãos de soberania; l)<br />
A fiscalização da constitucionalidade por acção ou por omissão de normas jurídicas; m)<br />
A independência <strong>do</strong>s tribunais; n) A autonomia das autarquias locais; o) A autonomia<br />
político-administrativa <strong>do</strong>s arquipélagos <strong>do</strong>s Açores e da Madeira.<br />
3<br />
Europeans can possibly think if this is the case for participating in the Union, with heavy<br />
political, economical and legal consequences arising from this “absolute necessity”.