ABSTRACT
The Federation has undertaken to serve as an extra-parliamentary organ of public opinion, to give it a voice and thereby force it upon the constituted authorities. Flowing from the electorate, the currents of opinion are to gather, in the first instance, within the local Associations representative of the party, to be finally united in the central Organization which is representative in its turn of local Associations. In the domain of principles and of ideas, an agreement is arrived at by means of votes, and in no way by discussion. The meetings of the delegates, supposed to form a parliament of the party, are not deliberative assemblies; they simply register, ratify decisions taken outside them. In the view of the leaders of the Caucus the sole object of the meetings of the delegates is to proclaim to the country what the party is agreed on.
