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Contemporary political science especially Kenneth Arrow,
has shown that this notion of general will is incoherent.
So, in many cases, the general will is unknown.
But, sometimes, it is still possible to know when some results don’t correspond
to the will of the voters, and I take as an example
the Democratic Liberal Party, in Great-Britain, which receives, frequently, 20% of the popular votes,
but only 4% of the seats in the Parliament. One could say this is unfair.
It is unfair, since it doesn’t reflect the will of the voters.
So, there are those two components of justice in the elections:
on one hand, the suffrage; on another, the concern that
the result should reflect the general will.