Is There a Voice?

There is a proposal that there ought to be, and I'm not trying to be cute here, something called a voice. It hasn't been well enough to find for people who really know what it is. And the idea of small clusters of people taking responsibility for their own future is a very important one. But we don't appreciate that modern European nations were birthed in an older historical context where you had very similar local communities operating across continental Europe. We don't really appreciate that the modern constitutions of European nations developed is a consequence of many hundreds of years of evolution and cultural development.