Chapter 4: Details on the organization of the Commons' Convention -part 2-
4.1. Comprehensive governing organizaton
As mentioned in the previous chapter, the Commons' Convention is more than a mere legislative body; it is a comprehensive governing organization. What this means is that it does not adopt the classical separation of powers. It does not mean, however, an all-powerful dictatorship, but rather, in particular, it means viewing legislation and administration as one.
In fact, by separating the legislative and executive branches, the executive branch with its bureaucracy tends to surpass the legislative branch with fewer legislators, resulting in undemocratic bureaucratic control in many countries. This is the current state of the national system.
Because the Commons' Convention system is a system that breaks down such bureaucratic control, it does not separate the legislative and executive branches of government. As a result, there is a reluctance to legislate policies.
Of course, this does not mean a state of lawlessness; core policies will be legislated. However, laws will be kept to the bare minimum and many matters will be left to policy guidelines. Policy guidelines are a type of normative document that sets guidelines for policy implementation, but they do not have the same binding force as laws and can be flexibly implemented, amended, or abolished.
The enactment of such policy guidelines is an important task of the People's Conference, and each standing committee and special committee plays a central role in this task. Unlike bills that must be passed by the plenary session of the Commons' Convention, policy guidelines are validly enacted only after deliberation and voting at the committee level and approval by the Political Council of the Commons' Convention.
This system is similar to the committee system of the parliamentary system, but the committees of the popular assembly system are not convenient subdivisions of the plenary session. Delegates who become committee members always belong to one or more of the subcommittees.
In order to support the policy-making and legislative activities of these committees, various policy research organizations (think tanks) will be established under each standing committee, and a Commons' Convention Library is also established to support the overall activities of the Commons' Convention in terms of data and materials.
👉The papers published on this blog are meant to expand upon my On Communism.
