ABSTRACT
Democracy is the business of citizens, who, according to Benjamin Barber,1 are aware of their public voice2 in order to participate actively and deliberately in a wider community. Citizens are simultaneously subject to the law and at the origin of these laws. The education of the citizen comes partly from school but also from television, an important instrument of socialization.3 Conversations at work, at school, among friends contain increasing references to series, which attests to the existence and the importance of a common popular culture. The series have made it possible for the public to acquire criteria about the legal system and to become aware of the problems which weaken it, thus engaging them in an indispensible refl ection on the effi cient development of their community.
