13 doing away with the rulers' tyranny vis-à-vis the ruled, thus considering all as rulers in people's congresses. Fourth: Right to Exercise of Power Since human rights defamation in the exercise of power has led to barbaric actions that were proved abusive to human conscious, the Great Jamhiriya was keen to confer on citizens the right to exercise power and directly run the public affairs of the country through a political system based on direct democracy and not through representatives of the people. This right was incarnated in highly cherished legal foundations, primarily the Declaration on the Establishment of the Power of the People. Since 1977 of last century, the direct power of the people has been the basis for the political regime in Libya. Power is exclusively for the Libyan people to be exercised via basic people's congresses, people's committees, syndicates, unions and vocational associations. The Libyan people's direct exercise of power in the absence of representation was substantiated as a fait accompli through basic people's congresses amounting to (468) in number at the level of the Jamhirya. This right was provided for in a background document, namely the Declaration on the Establishment of the Power of the People in 1977 and emphasized in the Great Green Charter of Human Rights in the Era of the Masses which the Libyan people assembling in basic people's congresses had agreed to release in 1988 where the first of its principles had read: "The Libyan people exercise popular power directly and without representation at the level of people's congresses and committees." The Libyan people asserted their right to directly exercise power through the Freedom Promotion Act no 20/1991, the rules of which are deemed fundamental and void of all that is in contrast. To guarantee this right on the grounds, a basic law no 1/1375 regulating the modus operandi of the people's congresses and people's committees was issued.