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The Parties shall promote and strengthen the universal values and principles of democracy. They shall protect the separation of powers, promote political pluralism and strengthen transparency, participation and confidence in democratic processes as well as trust between political leaders and the people, including by supporting the ratification and implementation of the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance.\n2. The Parties shall ensure the integrity of electoral processes by guaranteeing inclusive, transparent and credible elections respecting electoral cycles and constitutional provisions, in due respect for sovereignty. They shall promote international and regional standards and best practices in the management of elections as well as strengthen independent and impartial election commissions, ensuring a level playing field between all political parties and candidates. They shall enhance cooperation on electoral observation, including follow- up on electoral observation recommendations, as appropriate, and shall strengthen cooperation with the AU and the Regional Economic Communities. They shall strengthen national mechanisms that redress election-related disputes in a timely manner.\n3. The Parties shall strengthen the capacity of elected parliaments to perform their legislative, budgetary and oversight roles, respecting the prerogatives of all their members.\n4. The Parties shall enact domestic laws and regulations recognising different levels of government that have the mandate to exercise their competencies in accordance with delegated powers. They shall strengthen local administration and decentralise power to democratically elected local authorities as provided for in national laws.\n5. The Parties shall promote inclusive and pluralistic societies. They shall remove any restrictions to freedom of association, freedom of expression and freedom of peaceful assembly. They shall preserve and broaden an enabling space for civil society in advocacy and policy shaping, as well as ensuring free and independent media, to hold governments to the highest levels of transparency and accountability in the management of public affairs. The Parties shall \u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587 constructive state- citizen relations and shall raise awareness of democratic principles and human rights, including through education systems and the media.", "hash": "7542b307ab770821c3ca9d2d1eff3f27", "id": 2}, {"samples": [{"hash": "hXY1VOcN9na", "uri": "/contracts/hXY1VOcN9na#democracy", "label": "Third Sector Compact Agreement", "score": 30.8719631951, "published": true}, {"hash": "3DJjiAFeGdJ", "uri": "/contracts/3DJjiAFeGdJ#democracy", "label": "Third Sector Compact Agreement", "score": 24.4099931554, "published": true}, {"hash": "6J6YlpnCsy4", "uri": "/contracts/6J6YlpnCsy4#democracy", "label": "Third Sector Compact Agreement", "score": 23.2231348392, "published": true}], "size": 4, "snippet_links": [{"key": "third-sector", "type": "definition", "offset": [4, 16]}, {"key": "a-long", "type": "clause", "offset": [21, 27]}, {"key": "engagement-of", "type": "clause", "offset": [54, 67]}, {"key": "local-people", "type": "definition", "offset": [68, 80]}, {"key": "local-issues", "type": "clause", "offset": [84, 96]}, {"key": "ways-of-working", "type": "clause", "offset": [155, 170]}, {"key": "an-early", "type": "clause", "offset": [197, 205]}, {"key": "policy-development", "type": "clause", "offset": [215, 233]}, {"key": "service-design", "type": "definition", "offset": [238, 252]}, {"key": "to-provide", "type": "definition", "offset": [371, 381]}, {"key": "community-members", "type": "definition", "offset": [426, 443]}], "snippet": "The Third Sector has a long history of supporting the engagement of local people in local issues and solutions, Third Sector groups are grounded in the \u20185 Ways of Working\u2019. Involving the Sector at an early stage in policy development and service design, adopting a co productive approach leads to better outcomes for citizens where community based groups are well placed to provide insight into the unique challenges faced by community members they meet.", "hash": "2134e5632c09c886f16415db73160ae4", "id": 1}, {"samples": [{"hash": "eF6nDwrMvDC", "uri": "/contracts/eF6nDwrMvDC#democracy", "label": "Not Applicable", "score": 19.733744011, "published": true}, {"hash": "9pldUtodiEZ", "uri": "/contracts/9pldUtodiEZ#democracy", "label": "Not Applicable", "score": 19.733744011, "published": true}], "size": 2, "snippet_links": [{"key": "the-constitution", "type": "clause", "offset": [100, 116]}, {"key": "the-people", "type": "definition", "offset": [154, 164]}, {"key": "elected-representatives", "type": "clause", "offset": [204, 227]}, {"key": "in-\u2587", "type": "clause", "offset": [389, 393]}], "snippet": "Participatory democracy has numerous constitutional techniques and guarantees.59 Under the terms of the Constitution, Art. 2(2) \u2013 \u201call power is vested in the people who exercise their sovereignty through elected representatives and directly.\u201d The two constitutional 54 Generally on how the HCC approached its role, \u2587. \u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587, \u201cAktivizmus \u00e9s passzivizmus az Alkotm\u00e1nyb\u00edr\u00f3s\u00e1g gyakorlat\u00e1ban,\u201d in \u2587. \u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587 (ed.), T\u00edz eves az alkotm\u00e1nyb\u00edr\u00f3s\u00e1g, Alkotm\u00e1nyb\u00edr\u00f3s\u00e1g, Budapest (2000), at 167ff.", "hash": "74d2a836fd737236d68490a49bc83446", "id": 3}, {"samples": [{"hash": "7DmYQcozro6", "uri": "/contracts/7DmYQcozro6#democracy", "label": "Peace Agreement", "score": 21.0, "published": true}], "size": 2, "snippet_links": [{"key": "national-convention", "type": "definition", "offset": [68, 87]}], "snippet": "1. 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Political society requires, on his view, the legitimate establishment of political power, not least to be able to enforce justice. This legitimacy is dependent on its members having \u2018quitted this natural power [of preserving property and punishing offences, and having] resigned it up into the hands of the community\u2019, such that the community \u2018comes to be umpire\u2019.128 \u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587 states that being a member of such a society, on \u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2019\u2587 approach, amounts to \u2018transforming oneself into a constituent element of a political body\u2019.129 And it seems clear that \u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2019\u2587 approach is democratic in nature. To this end, \u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587 describes how, in legitimate political society, political representatives (i.e., \u2018men having authority from the community\u2019) are charged with \u2018decid[ing] all the differences that may happen between any members of that society concerning any matter of right\u2019.130 A key distinction between political society and the state of nature, therefore, is the parsing and discharge of the law of nature on particular matters of justice. As \u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587 states, \u2018in the absence of institutions, \u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587 maintains that natural law is enforceable by any individual\u2019. 131 Again, this does not mean that individuals in political society have ceded their moral obligations to discern and follow prerequisite moral standards for themselves. Rather, members of Lockean political society, as a matter of precondition, are morally committed to behaving towards each other in accordance with the moral standards of the law of nature \u2014 as well as contributing to the determination of legitimate positive law, by partaking in a representative model of political participation: 128 \u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587, Second Treatise, 46 (\u00a787). 129 \u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587, Discourse on Property, 158-9. 130 \u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587, 46-47 (\u00a787). 131 \u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587, \u201cWhat is Natural Law Like?\u201d 79. [th]us every man, by consenting with others to make one body politic under one government, puts himself under an obligation to every one of that society, to submit to the determination of the majority, and to be concluded by it[.]132 I shall return to this reference to \u2018the majority\u2019 in Chapter 6. But what is key for current purposes, here, is that in Lockean political society, the mechanisms of political institutions enable legitimate societal decision-making and the formal enaction of those decisions, amidst a political culture that protects and maintains members\u2019 equally-held political and societal rights and freedoms, as well as their fundamental equally-held \u2018natural\u2019 rights.133 This focus on equality drives the requirement for democratic participation. As per \u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587, the way in which each person is no other person\u2019s natural superior, means that, in political society, each person is \u2018owed an answer\u2019 from political power holders, because each person has \u2018equal interests and \u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2019.134 This relates to what \u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587 terms \u2018democratic intellect\u2019,135 and it demands that governors are accountable to, as well as representative of, the governed. I contend therefore that, whilst there is scope for a vast variety of different Lockean political societies, they will all be democratic \u2014 in the minimal sense of requiring respect for equally-held political rights to deliberative participation, realised on some kind of representative model, and underpinned by the basic preconditions of democracy, including respect for the rule of law, and certain basic rights.136 This is what I shall refer to below as \u2018minimally democratic\u2019. Again, \u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587 did not personally fully advocate this conception of democracy (or at least not in terms of explicitly arguing in favour of equal political rights for all). But it is, I contend, consistent with, and a natural consequence of, the basic principles his political philosophy advances. 132 \u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587, Second Treatise, 52 (\u00a797). 133 e.g., \u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587, 50-51 (\u00a794). 134 \u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587, God, \u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587, and Equality, 108. 135 \u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587, Chapter 4.", "hash": "b0191261b01819f14c0f47c1da2b487e", "id": 5}, {"samples": [{"hash": "hHaBRGhxorV", "uri": "/contracts/hHaBRGhxorV#democracy", "label": "Chapter Affiliation Agreement", "score": 22.0827552366, "published": true}], "size": 1, "snippet_links": [{"key": "policies-and-programs", "type": "clause", "offset": [119, 140]}], "snippet": "A democratic process involving members, through affiliated chapters is utilized to take positions on important issues, policies and programs.", "hash": "467e8f05696dcce1c8650eb60f467b75", "id": 6}, {"samples": [{"hash": "xMwRCV91wT", "uri": "/contracts/xMwRCV91wT#democracy", "label": "General Agreement on Reform and Civil Concord", "score": 18.0, "published": true}], "size": 1, "snippet_links": [{"key": "right-to-act", "type": "clause", "offset": [144, 156]}, {"key": "in-order-to", "type": "clause", "offset": [157, 168]}, {"key": "freedom-of-association", "type": "clause", "offset": [192, 214]}, {"key": "freedom-of-expression", "type": "clause", "offset": [236, 257]}, {"key": "parts-of-the", "type": "clause", "offset": [324, 336]}, {"key": "exercise-of", "type": "clause", "offset": [525, 536]}, {"key": "state-of", "type": "definition", "offset": [641, 649]}, {"key": "representation-and", "type": "clause", "offset": [718, 736]}, {"key": "clause-4", "type": "clause", "offset": [850, 858]}, {"key": "the-society", "type": "clause", "offset": [880, 891]}, {"key": "audit-bureau", "type": "definition", "offset": [904, 916]}, {"key": "the-management", "type": "clause", "offset": [1022, 1036]}, {"key": "the-public", "type": "definition", "offset": [1040, 1050]}, {"key": "clause-5", "type": "clause", "offset": [1058, 1066]}, {"key": "peace-and-security", "type": "clause", "offset": [1074, 1092]}, {"key": "the-compensation", "type": "clause", "offset": [1216, 1232]}, {"key": "laws-and-regulations", "type": "definition", "offset": [1304, 1324]}, {"key": "the-national", "type": "clause", "offset": [1353, 1365]}, {"key": "security-of-the", "type": "clause", "offset": [1494, 1509]}, {"key": "national-territory", "type": "definition", "offset": [1510, 1528]}, {"key": "circulation-of-goods", "type": "clause", "offset": [1703, 1723]}, {"key": "both-parties", "type": "clause", "offset": [1776, 1788]}, {"key": "the-land", "type": "clause", "offset": [1827, 1835]}, {"key": "both-sides", "type": "definition", "offset": [1974, 1984]}, {"key": "members-of", "type": "clause", "offset": [2033, 2043]}, {"key": "civil-servants", "type": "clause", "offset": [2061, 2075]}, {"key": "a-professional", "type": "clause", "offset": [2125, 2139]}, {"key": "the-conflict", "type": "definition", "offset": [2152, 2164]}, {"key": "other-members", "type": "definition", "offset": [2255, 2268]}, {"key": "material-harm", "type": "definition", "offset": [2438, 2451]}, {"key": "clause-6", "type": "definition", "offset": [2578, 2586]}, {"key": "general-agreement", "type": "definition", "offset": [2607, 2624]}, {"key": "other-measures", "type": "clause", "offset": [2767, 2781]}, {"key": "clause-7", "type": "clause", "offset": [2840, 2848]}, {"key": "final-arrangements", "type": "clause", "offset": [2850, 2868]}, {"key": "signed-by-the", "type": "clause", "offset": [2970, 2983]}, {"key": "original-copy", "type": "clause", "offset": [3001, 3014]}], "snippet": "There is no viable Republic without democracy, nor is there democracy without balance of power, pluralism of opinion, freedom of using it and a right to act in order to assert these values. * Freedom of association, freedom of thought, freedom of expression, freedom of assembly, and freedom of the press which are integral parts of the important democratic balances will be readjusted by legal stipulations and will make multi-party system more satisfactory. * Each power in the Republic must be strictly surrounded, in the exercise of its functions, by republican democratic institutions. These institutions must in their turn reflect the state of a national consensus freely and democratically elaborated by a just representation and carried out by administrations, within which the different national communities are represented in an equal way. CLAUSE 4: SOUND MANAGEMENT OF THE SOCIETY. A National Audit Bureau will immediately be initiated and will start its investigations in order to put an end to the opacity of the management of the public purse. CLAUSE 5: CIVIL PEACE AND SECURITY. Peace and justice are just as inseparable as breath and life. Achieving civil peace is providing justice and first of all the compensation of harm suffered. * It is also a question of initiating reforms of the laws and regulations guaranteeing conditions for the national cohesion and a sound management of the national common patrimony. * The militaries whose special mission it is to guarantee the security of the national territory against all external threat will reintegrate their positions they occupied before the civil conflict. Their presence will not constitute any hindrance nor difficulty for the circulation of goods and persons. In order to make this circulation safe both parties engage to start clearance of mines of the land and roads they had mined. * The two parties engage to suspend hostilities. * Civil and military prisoners of the two parties, detained on both sides will immediately be set free. * Furthermore the members of FRUD, officials, civil servants, militants, civilians or combatants who occupied a professional post before the conflict will be reintegrated in their administrations, establishments, services or companies. The other members of FRUD will be reintegrated in adequate civil or military functions. The forms of their effective disarmament will be settled at that moment. Those who were victims of material harm will be compensated. All accusation or pursuit of them because of the armed struggle will be abandoned or effaced by amnesty. CLAUSE 6: APPLICATION OF THE GENERAL AGREEMENT. The two parties signing the present General Agreement will together conduct the strict and honest application of all its contents and of all other measures undertaken within its framework or in regard to its aims. CLAUSE 7: FINAL ARRANGEMENTS. The present \u201cGeneral Agreement of civil reform and concord\u201d is established in two copies in French, signed by the two parties. One original copy will be conserved by each one of them. 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The Senior Lay Member of the University Court is elected by students and staff. Members of the Students\u2019 Association Students\u2019 Representative Council often work with Senior University staff on policy-making and other initiatives. Where possible and where confidentiality and time scales allow, student opinion is canvased more widely on significant strategic decisions such as major new capital projects and changes to the academic calendar.", "hash": "6eda4954c82468d80487c3dcec4f609d", "id": 8}, {"samples": [{"hash": "8dZT1wyFz7u", "uri": "/contracts/8dZT1wyFz7u#democracy", "label": "Preferential Trade Agreement", "score": 21.0, "published": true}], "size": 1, "snippet_links": [{"key": "likely-to-have", "type": "clause", "offset": [352, 366]}, {"key": "the-region", "type": "definition", "offset": [502, 512]}, {"key": "rest-of-the-world", "type": "clause", "offset": [521, 538]}, {"key": "in-general", "type": "clause", "offset": [599, 609]}], "snippet": "Results for democracy are mixed. The random effects and product fixed effects models suggest that democracy is positively correlated with binding overhang, in contradiction of the flexibility hypothesis. However, once country\u2010specific factors are controlled for, democratic countries are more likely to see binding overhang in agriculture, though less likely to have it for non\u2010agricultural goods. regional production networks hypothesis predicts. However, we do not observe a large difference between the region and the rest of the world, nor between Chapter 85 products and non\u2010agricultural goods in general.", "hash": "10f0348aaab828bff34a99db36e24d48", "id": 9}, {"samples": [{"hash": "ftqpi4rU4U1", "uri": "/contracts/ftqpi4rU4U1#democracy", "label": "Distribution Agreement", "score": 31.3390373502, "published": true}], "size": 1, "snippet_links": [{"key": "work-for", "type": "definition", "offset": [270, 278]}, {"key": "power-of", "type": "clause", "offset": [293, 301]}, {"key": "special-incentives", "type": "clause", "offset": [419, 437]}, {"key": "form-of-government", "type": "definition", "offset": [593, 611]}, {"key": "tell-us-the", "type": "clause", "offset": [744, 755]}, {"key": "details-of", "type": "clause", "offset": [756, 766]}, {"key": "necessary-for", "type": "definition", "offset": [796, 809]}, {"key": "based-on", "type": "clause", "offset": [1115, 1123]}, {"key": "base-level", "type": "definition", "offset": [1255, 1265]}, {"key": "the-country", "type": "definition", "offset": [1380, 1391]}, {"key": "other-conditions", "type": "definition", "offset": [1461, 1477]}, {"key": "right-of-citizenship", "type": "clause", "offset": [1513, 1533]}, {"key": "right-to-demand", "type": "clause", "offset": [1561, 1576]}, {"key": "a-vote", "type": "definition", "offset": [1577, 1583]}, {"key": "supreme-council", "type": "definition", "offset": [1591, 1606]}, {"key": "public-offices", "type": "clause", "offset": [1619, 1633]}, {"key": "by-the-council", "type": "clause", "offset": [1741, 1755]}, {"key": "general-principles", "type": "clause", "offset": [2072, 2090]}, {"key": "the-principles", "type": "clause", "offset": [2152, 2166]}, {"key": "in-the-state", "type": "definition", "offset": [2630, 2642]}], "snippet": "Spinoza writes that democracy is the most absolute form of state, 316 and this is because the main problem of making a state more stable, that is, organizing the affects of the individuals in the multitude, such that by working to achieve their interests and goals they work for the increased power of the state, is made easier since the multitude are, by definition, the rulers in a democracy. This does not mean that special incentives in the form of social and political 314 TP 9.1-3, 9.15 315 TP 8.3 316 TP 11.1 institutions are unnecessary in a democracy, however. Democracy, as the best form of government also has the farthest to fall. 317 Spinoza\u2019s section on democracy in the Political Treatise remains unfinished, so he was unable to tell us the details of what institutions he thought necessary for ensuring the permanent safety of the freest state. 318 We know that he thought of a democracy as like an aristocracy, with its council and series of checks on the power of councils with sub councils and judges, etc. However, whereas in an aristocracy, the principle of selection for the large council was based on election through some good quality, in a democracy, the principle of selection was based on birth or citizenship, or based on some base level of property or money. 319 In a democracy, Spinoza writes, \u201cAll who are born of citizen parents, or on the soil of the country, or who have deserved well of the republic, or have accomplished any other conditions upon which law grants to a man the right of citizenship; they all, I say, have the right to demand a vote in the supreme council and to fill public offices, nor can they be refused, but for crime or infamy.\u201d 320 Law, rather than some special quality and election by the council, determines who can be a citizen and have a vote in the council in a democracy. Although we lack a section on what social and political institutions are necessary for a strong democracy, we retain Spinoza\u2019s programmatic statements about democracy being the best and most absolute form of commonwealth as well as his general principles of what makes a state more stable. From these we can develop the principles for the best and freest state, which was what Spinoza thought democracy could be. I will revisit Spinoza\u2019s conception of democracy in the section below on \u2018The Best State\u2019 and on Spinoza\u2019s political principles. But first, I would like to address an issue which underlies Spinoza\u2019s argument for democracy as both the freest and most absolute government. 317 TP 7.2 318 With the one exception that Spinoza argued that only those who are independent can be involved in the state. 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