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The Paduan Commune

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The oldest municipal institutions of our city (the elected councils, the written statutes, the tradition of citizen participation in public decisions) have never been fully extinguished, even through the decades of seignorial government that placed a single family above them. We revive and formalize these communal structures, giving our merchants and burghers a recognized role in civic governance and restoring the sense that the city belongs to all its citizens rather than its rulers alone. This Comùn Padovàn (Comune Padovano in standard Italian: Paduan Commune) channels the energy of our most active citizens into institutions that serve the state, increasing the tax revenue that flows from a population that believes in the legitimacy of what it pays into.

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