A. Dispersed among the people?
B. In the hands of the government?
C. In a combination of government and business?
D. In corporate hands?
E. In a combination of people plus government plus corporations?
If the answer is not A, then it’s not democracy?
In the last couple of decades the role of corporations in the decision-making of government has been normalized.
The idea that government is not required to regulate, that self-regulation is superior, led to weakening, followed by crisis and potential collapse of economic systems.
The individual
The community
The organization
The corporation
The government
We learned long ago that we are all both good and bad. That sometimes the bad will prevail. And so we agreed upon the rule of law. We have the rule of law for:
– the individual
– the community
– the organization
– the corporation
– the government
We have the rule of law SPECIFICALLY BECAUSE we learned that we are all both good and bad, that self-regulation is not reliable. If it was, we wouldn’t need laws.
How, in the name of Goodness, the idea that self-regulation by the commercial function in the society could work ever came to replace the wisdom of the ages, I don’t know.
If you have a democracy, the power is dispersed among the people.
It is obviously very easy for the government to become the power. Their power has to be kept in balance. How do the people in a democracy hold the government in check? .. If you answered through elections, you are wrong. It is fundamentally through the laws of the land.
Governments cannot break those laws. If they do, then they have stepped over the line that defines democracy.
If the people in the democracy cannot bring the government back within the rule of law, the democracy is lost.
It is obvious that the government and corporations must not be allowed to use the laws, policing, law enforcement and jail system as a coercive force against citizens.
That is another boundary which must not be over-stepped . It is something different from “the rule of law”. It is rule by force, a sign that democracy is claimed but not real.
It is up to citizens to:
a. not allow the laws to be used in a coercive way
b. disallow the writing of laws that compromise the essential balance between state regulation and self regulation.
Breach of the law by the Government of Canada is not a minor matter. The Government is descending us into a state of lawlessness if it does not obey the laws of Canada and the international treaties we have signed.
The use of the judicial system as a coercive instrument to silence protest is a giant step over the line.
I am curious
is it lost
understanding?
Basic information
One needs
If you live
In democracy
Were you taught?
If not
What purpose was served
In not teaching?