Everyone acts as a legislator by modifying their social environment

Evidence

Every man, in as much as he is active, i.e. living, contributes to modifying the social environment in which he develops (to modifying certain of its characteristics or to preserving others); in other words, he tends to establish “norms”, rules of living and of behaviour. One’s circle of activity may be greater or smaller, one’s awareness of one’s own action and aims may be greater or smaller; furthermore, the representative power may be greater or smaller, and will be put into practice to a greater or lesser extent in its normative, systematic expression by the “represented”. A father is a legislator for his children, but the paternal authority will be more or less conscious, more or less obeyed and so forth. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 989

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the expanded sense in which every active person is a ‘legislator’ — not just the institutionally appointed one.