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What does it mean?
Most citizens lack the political power to remove unfair laws or create fair ones.
In plain terms
Ordinary people cannot change bad laws on their own.
What can you take from it?
Civic power is unevenly distributed.

Where it applies

  • voting rights discussions
  • legal reform debates
  • activism planning

Putting it to work

  • organize community action
  • lobby representatives
  • study law

Questions to consider

  • How do you gain political power?
  • What makes a law unjust?

Another view

Some people do have influence through wealth or office.

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