Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Order, Security, and Efficiency- Montesquieu (Rachel Latham)
Order, security, and efficiency are clearly more important than liberty, equality, and fraternity. I firmly believe in the separation of powers. Within the my theory of the separation of powers, I suggest that there should be checks and balances between the three branches. This idea helps to create order, and helps make government efficient. Relying on liberty, equality, and fraternity is complete foolishness. A country cannot rely on these ideals to truly thrive, or even for that matter survive. Liberty, equality, and fraternity rely on trust within the country and the ruler, and that surely got France nowhere under monarch rule. Of course, these ideals are something to consider, but not when restoring order is of utmost importance. The revolution accomplished more for the middle class, and thankfully got rid of the nobles and their special privileges. The revolution led the way for a more stable environment in France. Hopefully this revolution leads to a larger emphasis on order, security, and efficiency rather than liberty, equality and fraternity.
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John Locke (Eva Lindquist)
ReplyDeleteI must disagree with your assertion. The idea is not that liberty, fraternity, and equality are the structure of the government. Indeed, they are ideals rather than plans. Order, security, and efficiency simply relate more to government than do the other ideals. I will willingly admit that your plan of three branches of government is admirable, but the overall question is of which set of ideals is more valuable as a whole.