Abstract
This essay is part of a dossier on Cristina Lafont's book Democracy without Shortcuts.
Highlights
The latter is just an implication of Rousseau’s basic idea of autonomy, i.e. the all-affected principle
Every illegal migrant who crosses the borders of a country must have some participatory rights, e. g. the right to participate in the concretization of legal norms by launching proceedings in a court
The legislative power depends on the conjecture that the procedural participation of everybody affected by a legal norm guarantees that the norm is legitimated by the voice and vote of all of us; it is true, or at least transparently epistemic
Summary
The latter is just an implication of Rousseau’s basic idea of autonomy (self-legislation), i.e. the all-affected principle. G. the right to participate in the concretization of legal norms by launching proceedings in a court.1 Even a national law that allows the contamination of national, and, as a side-effect, international waters, generates a right of affected foreign agencies to participate at a certain point in the procedure of democratic legislation (the formation of the general will).
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