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No, (individual) citizens aren't supposed to be that.

Now, all (majority) citizens? Sure. But we established proper procedures how to execute that power, and you aren't supposed to skip those. Mainly because without those, you cannot guarantee that it's actually majority's opinion, and not loud minority. But even if you have majority of the area agreeing on something, there is no reason why suddenly they should be able to abandon all the agreements, (social) contracts and rules they agreed to before.



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