When the arms of democracy works for the best interest of its citizens, do Sri Lanka need a constitutional amendment & a reform?
| by Robinhood
( April 23, 2013, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) The supremacy of the constitution is upheld in a country where arms of democracy (the executive, the legislature, the judiciary) collectively identifies and abides its boundary of laws, complying the principles of natural justice, protecting the sovereignty of its people and works for the best interest of its citizens in creating laws and administering free and fair justice when exercising good governance.
In recent history in Sri Lanka the arms of democracy is exerted under severe pressure or influenced to work in favor of protecting or cohabit with a single executive or to coexist with the remaining arm to sustain its position disregarding the people’s best interest.
In such a circumstance when exercising such an administration the co-arms of the democracy, the judiciary, the parliament exercise its governance in favor of preserving its rule and demote public institutions to work for best interest of its citizens and good practices of governance but promote a personal self interest/benefits, prioritize a personal agenda for its survival and follow commands from an executive power. In such a circumstance the members who are elected by the people to protect democracy, the constitution to work for the best interest of the people coexist with the executive power and neglect citizens best interest and find a way or use the supreme constitution and legislature a way to sustain its regime by the name of exercising governance. Such an administration leads to authoritarian governance neglecting the sovereignty of the people who elected the government.
When exercising such governance, the supreme constitution is dissembled by the ruling legislators engaging in gallery politics, disrespecting the supremacy of the parliament, independence of the judiciary and the sovereignty and the best interest of its citizens. When the people administering governance and the arms of democracy, exceeds its boundary of laws outside the constitution dissembling the constitution for the interest of strengthening a single or a collective body there will be no citizens sovereignty preserved or independence of the judiciary is protected.
In such a situation, if any arm does not coexist or cohabit with the centralized executive there will be pressure exerted by the remaining arm/s to resign, remove or dispose its position from the public service disregarding the best interest of its citizens. If all arms of democracy individually or collectively come to a position disregarding the sovereignty and the best interest of its citizens, to its own advantage there should be an independent governing body to monitor the integrity and the consistency of the people governing democracy.
If the arms of democracy exercise its administration within its boundary of laws with an intention of strengthening the peoples sovereignty (always create and exercise laws for the best interest of its citizens) without strengthening or protecting the best interest of a single executive there is no necessity for a constitutional reform or an amendment.
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