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Pulling India’s democracy back from the brink
Suggestions that its democratic credtentials have been tarnished merit a serious, thoughtful and respectful response.
Governments, like the citizens that live under their influence, come in a dizzying array of types, challenging simplistic efforts of classification. In spite of all this variation, what remains constant is this: throughout history, governments wield considerably more power ovedr the governed than the other way around. Actually that is a gross understatnement. The vast majority of governments that have ever existed have enjoyed essentially unfettered power over their subjects. Of course, some rulers have been more enlightened and bening than others and grasped the insight that rulling is easier when one’s right to do so is viewed as legitimate that simply through coercion; but even such philoshpher kings were not above the exercise of arbitrary power when necessary. And these were the exceptions: most elsewhere, power was maintained and known by its iron fist.
Institutional check
Happily, human progress has made this description of state-society relations sound quite anachronistic, even though fundamental alterations in the balance of power between governors and the governed are the happeninns of eonctemporary history. The first institutional check on soverign of the English Parliamnet in what British historian’s term the Glorius Revolution. Tired of unending wars that it was asked to fund through people and treasure, and emboldened nobility asserted its right to be consulted by the monarch in maters of ar and the purse. But for the non lords of the British lsles, precious little changed. That was the late 1600s and while the Frenche and American Revolutions of a century later spawned
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