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These include our legal system, which is underpinned by an independent judiciary, our legislature, and our civil service.
Within the ranks of our civil service and judiciary are nationals from Britain, Australia, the United States, Canada, and India.
The Polish constitution provides for an independent judiciary, and sets the term for the First President of the Supreme Court at six years.
As the PiS accelerates its takeover of the judiciary, many of those who oppose the new law have placed their hopes in the European Union.
Second, democracy requires institutions of restraint, such as an independent judiciary and media, to uphold fundamental rights like freedom of speech and prevent governments from abusing their power.
They replicate the practices of the elitist regimes they replaced, clamping down on the press and civil liberties and emasculating (or capturing) the judiciary.
In addition, the conservative-controlled Guardian Council – which comprises six theologians appointed by the Supreme Leader and six jurists nominated by the judiciary and approved by the parliament – has rejected 99% of reformist candidates for the upcoming election.
This includes US institutions such as the judiciary and the media, as well as the international institutions that underpin our geopolitical and economic order, including the United Nations, NATO, and the European Union.
So far, democratic institutions, particularly the press and the judiciary, have proven resilient.
Even if the judiciary remains uncompromised, America’s international soft power and status as an economic safe haven may not.
The Syrian regime of President Bashar Assad retains huge influence over key levers of the Lebanese state, including the security and intelligence apparatus, the army, and the judiciary – not to mention an alliance with the militarily powerful Hezbollah.
And government control now extends beyond the media, judiciary, and academia to the worlds of business and sports.
Beyond that, however, the power of the judiciary stems precisely from the assumption of independence which Hamilton regarded as crucial for their position.
Politicians clearly do not like this shift in power toward the judiciary.
If they are personally affected, like Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, they do not actually attack the power of the judiciary, but question judges' independence.
But the debate about possibly biased Italian or Spanish or Belgian judges in highly sensitive cases detracts from the deeper question of whether the increase in the powers of the judiciary may not have gone too far.
It could be argued that the greater the power of the judiciary is in a country, the slower the pace of reform becomes.
President Daniel Ortega is seeking to remain in office more or less perpetually, and seems ready to perpetrate every type of stratagem, from electoral fraud to dissolving Congress and the judiciary, in order to achieve his aims.
International assistance would be needed, for example, to help disarm the population (especially the paramilitary colectivos), professionalize the military and police forces, reform the judiciary, manage the transitional justice program, recover stolen funds, and rebuild the health system.
This includes ensuring that borrowers are accountable and that their liabilities are transparent; deleveraging municipal debt through asset sales and more transparent financing; and shifting the burden of resolving property-rights disputes from regulators to arbitrators and, eventually, to the judiciary.
We demanded an independent judiciary, because we believed that democracy and prosperity are impossible without the rule of law, and that the rule of law requires a judiciary that can act as a constraint on the government.
The problem has been that because we have lacked an independent judiciary, we have not had an independent election commission.
But in the last 16 years it has begun to reap the fruits of genuine democratic competition, because an independent judiciary and electoral commission gives people confidence that their vote can make a difference.
There was a vibrant multiparty parliamentary democracy, with an independent judiciary and one of the world’s earliest movements for female emancipation.
But when the government announced its ICC decision, it also said it would withdraw its Constitutional Court appeal, suggesting that Zuma is hitting back through other means at those who have embarrassed him through the judiciary.
The World Bank should provide technical and financial assistance to support a reorganized judiciary.
The judiciary does not stray far from Ortega’s wishes, and public administration is widely viewed as corrupt.
This is particularly true for India, where elections are vigorous and common people participate in them more enthusiastically than in the US, but other democratic institutions remain weak and sometimes dysfunctional, and the judiciary is too slow and occasionally corrupt.
Singh’s questioning by government prosecutors is perhaps the least worrying case, because India’s democracy is rock-solid, and its judiciary is fearsomely jealous of its independence.
Within the Russian judiciary, Chuvashov was one of the rare judges with the courage to rule against powerful local government officials as well as high-ranking officers of the interior ministry.
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