“For the constitution, rather than suggesting that all behave in a godlike manner, recognises that, to the contrary, people are swine and will take any opportunity to subvert any agreement to pursue what they consider to be their proper interests. To that end, the constitution separates the power of the state into those three branches which are for most of us Americans (I include myself) the only thing we remember from twelve years of schooling. The constitution, written by men with some experience of actual government, assumes that the chief executive will work to be king, the parliament will scheme to sell off the silverware and the judiciary will consider itself Olympian and do everything it can to much improve (destroy) the work of the other two branches. So the constitution pits them against each other in the attempt not to achieve stasis but to allow for the constant corrections necessary to prevent one branch from getting too much power for too long.” playwright and screenwriter David Mamet
Posted on: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 13:13:20 +0000
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