Wambaugh, Sarah Keywords: Referendum | Mots clefs: Référendum | ABSTRACT Sarah Waumbaugh points out in the introduction to her course that the plebiscite system is not ideal. However, would it be preferable, she asks, for issues of sovereignty to be settled by conquest or by a group of powers gathered in a peace conference and establishing their decisions sometimes on race statistics, sometimes on history, sometimes, finally, on economic considerations? Is not this a method still more contrary to democrat…