The Free Federation of France was founded based on Proudhon's mutualism after the European Civil War in 1850. Local communities would elect delegates for a commune who would in turn elect delegates for a county, who elected delegates for a region, who would finally elect national delegates. The Federation's Constitution mandated that all businesses would be under either self-employment or run as a cooperative enterprise. This radical reorganization of business alienated foreign business interests, and lead to the economic isolation of France. The Constitution also allowed any level of "government" the right to secede and all officials were subject to recall. It is the right to secede and the claim by Proudhon at the time that this means it was not really a state that has scholars debating