The idea Vorstellung that all individuals ought to participate in deliberations and decisions on the universal concerns of the state on the grounds that they are all members of the state and that the concerns of the state are the concerns of everyone, so that everyone has a right to share in them with his own knowledge and volition seeks to implant in the organism of the state a democratic element devoid of rationalfornI, although it is only by virtue of its rational form that the state is an organism.