This process is made trustworthy because it is reached by many small stages and is open to information at all of them, so that, although the process is carried out centrally in order to guarantee the unanimity of the decision, sovereignty cannot be exercised at one stroke, i.e. arbitrarily. It would seem that even the social system learns that it is best to offer trust in small doses which individually do not put too much at risk.

Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, loc. 223