In The Wolf as well as a Silence of a Lamb, we said, among others:
The core of democracy is representation. It is a system of governance where a people have been represented by representatives who have been inaugurated by a people. These representatives afterwards form a government. The supervision than governs a people. A state is afterwards formed, consisting of a supervision as well as a people it governs.
More importantly, we attempted to correct a renouned notion which democracy was a cause of liberty. After alluding to Marx Utopian state, we opined:
The viewable smirch in Marx's speculation of a ideal society creates democracy a really alluring alternative. If during all, it pushes to a fore a false notion which autocracy is a product of democracy, when in actuality democracy is only but a single of a most (flawed) ways of safeguarding liberty. Liberty is not caused by democracy. It rather is a cause for democracy.
And we asked a little sobering questions:
That brings us to a little sobering thoughts. Can autocracy be usurped by democracy? Is it probable for a democracy to fall short autocracy in itself? In which event, what will happen to democracy? Can it exist but liberty?
I would like, in this article, to enhance a theoretical postulation which a basement of democracy is autocracy as well as freedom, in conditions of a leisure of countenance of a people in a approved state.
I feel which a low understanding of this area of a democracy speculation is important, more particularly due to a current climate in Malaysia, where BERSIH is formulation a convene for electoral reform upon a 9th Jul this year whilst during a same time, a usual suspects of horror as well as doom, Perkasa, Ibrahim Ali as well as their ilk have been formulation to create disturbances.
Democracy, to my mind, starts w! ith an c ountenance of will by a people or a group of people. The will which was being expressed was t! he will to be represented in a governance as well as administration department of a state which a people formed.
That will was expressed through a routine of elections.
It would not thus be distant fetched to say which a state of democracy is anchored to, as well as in actuality born, out of which countenance of will. The countenance of a peoples will is therefore a bearing of democracy.
However, a countenance of a peoples will does not end with a cast of characters of votes. A loyal as well as energetic democracy requires successive rendezvous of minds in between a State as well as a people. The inaugurated representatives have been not angels. They have been not gods. Being tellurian who have been garbed with power robes, temptations lurk in each corner. Abuse of powers as well as positions have been only but a finger snap away. Powers corrupts. Absolute powers corrupt absolutely, said a really correct man.
Furthermore, democracy is also tied up to charge by numbers. Which means, a infancy would win a right to rule. Regardless, a success of a approved State is not in a manner in which a infancy rules. It is measured by looking during how a infancy balances as well as treats a rights as well as final of a infancy with a viewable desires as well as wants of a minority bearing in thoughts a general gratification of a State as a whole.
In such a energetic as well as colourful state of things, countenance of a people continues as well as contingency be allowed to continue if a suggestive democracy were to exist.
The people demonstrate their will as well as mind. The State, around a government, listens as well as acts. The routine continues. It is this successive as well as mutual rendezvous of a will as well as mind, in between a people as well as a State, which gives democracy a soul.
Democracy does not meant a people expressing their will by cast of charac! ters the ir votes once in 5 years as well as after which a inaugurated deputy could pretence which they have been mandated to do anything during their whim as well as whim until their 5 year tenure ends during which time they come back for a new mandate. That is only at certain time of year absolutism. A benevolen! t absolu tist even a police - State masked as a democracy where democracy is used to legitimise a States gusto for sadistic as well as sinful intents.
When there is a general intention to demonstrate a peoples will, it is not for a State to forestall such countenance of will by citing confidence or economics reason. In a colourful democracy, a obliged State should act to facilitate a countenance of which will in a peaceful as well as orderly fashion. That is a duty of a State.
A State which act to forestall a lawful countenance of will by a people which it governs is a State aroused of a own voice. That State loses a dignified legitimacy to order as well as to be respected.
The State contingency remember which a will of a people is insidious. That it exists inside their mind. What they wish to do is a demonstrate which will.
Even when such countenance is supressed, either by a overt acts of a State of any of a machinations, a will still exists. It will not go away.
Although a countenance of a will might be prevented, a will cant.
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