The state must use full democracy not to be criminal

The nature of government is that it has absolute legal control over the people, which indicates how important it is to make sure the government is acting in the best manner possible. The power of the government is absolute.

Anarchists tend to make the simple argument that since we each own ourselves there is never any valid government but the problem with this argument is that if we are to live without crime we must have some mechanism to deliver justice which inevitably becomes the government.

If government is not intrinsically bad (contrary to the anarchist position) we must make sure that it is restrained and accountable to the people and we do this through democracy. The government is the leader of the people (if it is valid at all) and as such must act with a fiduciary care over the people, which is to say that since it has legal ownership of the people it must act in their interests. If the state fails to act with adequate fiduciary care over the people then it must be removed and it is via democracy that this is carried out. If the people determine that the state has been negligent it will be replaced with a set of new politicians.

This notion of fiduciary care is important because it accepts that the state has a right to 'own' the people and individual members of the country but only on certain terms. To assume this kind of (fiduciary) ownership without adequate mandate (via elections) is a crime. The government must be fairly elected otherwise its special rights cease to be valid and the state is nothing other than a criminal organisation. It is democracy which protects the state from accusations of criminality but if a proportional voting system is not used this leads to problems.

If there is not a proportional voting system in place then the people will not be able to hold the state to account, since they will not have an adequate veto to remove the distrusted politicians. If both of the main parties (under a first-past-the-post system) share characteristics which are troublesome to the people this leads to problems which are remedied by a direct (or proportional) system.

Because the state has a duty of fiduciary care over the people it must use full democracy otherwise it ceases to be a valid and helpful organisation and it instead becomes criminal. Only pr prevents the state from being criminal.