Our Parliamentary system has simply failed to meet the challenge of judicial activism.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's not just parliament that requires radical modernisation. It's our democratic processes.
People have become disillusioned with Parliament, and that threatens democracy.
In our system of government, an opposition party doesn't have the ability to pass legislation, but it has the ability to massively screw things up.
The fundamental problem is that there's no credibility in the judicial system, which is a system that's been completely politicized. This is retaliation and selective repression.
I was interested in political failure here in the U.S. The way we're failing to work together to solve even our smallest problems, let alone the complex ones.
I think politics can no longer be assigned to parliamentary activity and it probably never could be. But politics with a small p and the history of trade union movement really interests me.
The courts are truly the least dangerous of the three branches of our government.
Defenders of the status quo will argue that this system has served us well over the centuries, that our parliamentary traditions have combined stability and flexibility and that we should not cast away in a minute what has taken generations to build.
Government loses its claim to legitimacy when it fails to fulfill its obligations.
Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in such complex peace treaties that empower so many different people to pursue so many contradictory aims.