"As Arendt notes, only elected representatives had their participation institutionalized in the Constitution: "The Revolution, while it had given freedom to the people, had failed to provide a space where this freedom could be exercised. Only the representatives of the people, not the people themselves, had an opportunity to engage in those activities of 'expressing, discussing, and deciding' which in a positive sense are the activities of freedom.""
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Cristina BeltrƔn p 43 Cruelty as Citizenship: How Migrant Suffering Sustains White Democracy (2020)
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