INEQUALITY: A JUSTICE PERSPECTIVE (PART 3)

Any institution that lacks the ability to introspect will eventually implode, or if not, it will transfer its weakness onto its partner institutions. If an institution, or country, cannot hold a mirror to itself and critically admit its flaws with the intention to finding honest solutions, then collapse is almost predictably inevitable. This is why institutions of government are designed in a way that they outlast the normal period of service for any individual- and their inevitable flaws- at all ranks. Nations that rank high in this introspective mastery have had the courage to review and rectify errors committed through their courts and institutions of state prior.Therefore, part of the logic behind the tripod structure of government, Executive, Legislature and Judiciary was not just to check possible excessive power at executive level and provide balance. It was not to pronounce the independence of the judiciary from political influence either. Instead, some of the reasons were […]