ATERCRACY. Name drawn from two Greek words: ater, without, and cratos, government.

An Atercrat is thus a citizen who is in no way governed and who considers all the cracies, whether theo, auto, aristo, demo or of some other variety, as political machines for the creation of misery and oppression.

And, indeed, when power if held by one alone, it is despotism that follows, no matter the goodness of the monarch.

When the power is in the hands of the aristocracy, it naturally favors its own and everything becomes privilege.

When it is the people who are supposed to be master, as the exercise is limited to the delegates to whom they have conferred the power to do everything in their name, the sovereignty becomes an illusion and, victims of their agents, they always end, out of weariness and disgust, through their inconstancy and irregularities, by giving themselves to a personality that they have chosen to direct them and whom they always make their heir.

All the Craties being equally bad, we must make a firm resolution to do without them. That is to say to replace them with a social organization that transforms governments into administrations of temporary initiative, overseeing general interests, where the public functions would be tasks falling by lot on citizens obliged to fulfill them, if they are designated, during the space of one year only in the course of their existence, under penalty of being reprimanded by their peers and severely punished if they perform badly.

An atercratic nation is thus one where the citizen is their own soldier, their own pope, their own civil servant, their own sovereign; and when the drawing of lots has designated them to fulfill a function useful to the interests of the collectivity, their duty is defined, drawn up and limited in a manner that will never permit them to impinge on the rights of others and abuse the temporary function against the weakest of the citizens, but to be the temporal servant of the interests of the collectivity, all while having the greatest respect for the liberty proper to the individual.