1. The increase of insecurity seen in the context of the changing use of law

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The ambition of building a welfare state has given way during the last thirty years or so to the reality of a constitutional state in which the responsibility for resolving social problems is systematically devolved upon the Law. This is particularly the case in everything to do with welfare protection, where this change is the most significant. Also by reason of the grave social crisis heralded by this tendency, and the remorseless rise in social exclusion it is already bringing about, it is important to situate the origins of this social transformation and understand the history of its beginnings. Not only do the policies targeting the poorest social classes bring about a shockingly unequal access to social protection, they reveal a division in society that puts the future of democracy in peril. We can see how what is done on the pretext of stimulating the economy leads on the one hand to the worst of social regressions and on the other to the growing power of the multinationals.