Mattarella says no to state absolutism,awareness of limits

(ANSA) - ROME, JUL 3 - President Sergio Mattarella on Wednesday warned against the dangers of state absolutism and said governments should be aware of their limits.
    "8Cathilic jurist Egidio) Tosato challenged Rousseau's assumption that the general will could find no limits of any kind in laws, because the will of the people could change any rule or regulation," the head of State said at the Social Week of Catholics in Italy in Trieste.
    "He did so in very clear words: 'We all know by now that the alleged general will is in reality no more than the will of a majority and that the will of a majority, which sees itself as representative of the will of the whole people can be, as has often been shown, more unjust and more oppressive than the will of a prince.
    "A firm no, therefore, to state absolutism, to limitless, potentially overbearing authority. Awareness of limits is an indispensable factor of loyal and inalienable democratic vitality". (ANSA).