JG - MPs and the public trust

From my archive of press clippings:

Jamaica Gleaner

MPs and the public trust

published: Sunday June 22, 2008

Martin Henry, Contributor

Poor Shahine Robinson has been saddled with the miracle-working task of turning members of Parliament into angels - or to at least getting the little 'devils' to behave. James Madison, second president of the United States, once famously remarked that "if men were angels, no government would be necessary".

Read the whole article here.

Snippet(s):

"And since the men [and women] in government are no angels either it has always being a fundamental problem of politics about how best to restrain the abuse of power without unduly hobbling the capacity to govern.

The answer of parliamentary democracy has been to devise a balancing of power and responsibilities among branches of government and to place checks and balances on the exercise of power."