I would like to make a sarcastic note first:
"Want to take a trip back in time and see the middle ages? Oh wait, we're here already."
We are currently caught in the middle of the "pork barrel scandal". For this entry, I would like to recognize my esteemed professor in administrative law for giving our class this assignment because it just made me realize how much immature, or premature our government really is-- even with our glorified president in power right now.
As I write here, the newspapers are scattered with clippings and opinions on these funds. The news currently states that our government plans on abolishing these funds in the next budget allocation and adds that due to the findings of misuse and misappropriation of the funds by legislators, the budget is set to be re-allocated to the branch of government that should be the one to hold the funds for projects. The executive branch being at the forefront of this seems to be appropriate. I would also agree with the budget reform plans that they should be the branch given the funds since they are the ones
Coming fresh from reading medieval history, the excruciating image of the reign of monarchs is still in my head. Because of this, I realized that there really is not much of a difference in the way they ruled and the way the state of our government is right now. I remember writing a few years ago in my political science essay that our government is still young and underdeveloped despite being in the advent of the age of technological advancements. It is sad to think, but I still hold that opinion today. The horrible part is probably that the whole scheme of it is familiar to that period of state governance when king-militants were necessary. I guess this shows just how much we have progressed in the area of state governance. Or has it?
But what I think is worse of it is that I held out hope for impending development. But to give the President the benefit of the doubt, I do believe and think that he is doing a better job than any of the past administrations-- other than Magsaysay of course.
What is it then with the medieval ages that I found is so familiar still in today's government? The discretion. Back then, the king held all the power subject to what he deemed would be a favorable decision to God's will. He gave grants and gifts to his kinsmen as a form of political alliance. This was to show that the power and resources were being distributed evenly so that they would reach the people, the ultimate beneficiaries of it all. He decides then who gets the royal titles, and the lands and riches that go along with them and who gets the favors from the royal treasury. Evidently, it is up to his good graces. The decision as to who gets what is decided by a single factor, political alliance. As a result, members of the royalty tried their best to be on the king and queen's favor in hopes of being given those titles.
Today those good graces and discretionary powers of the king are apparently still around. History would show us that several treaties and international conventions were signed to strip monarchs of such powers. Thus the formation of other forms of government. The laws were revised and the separation of powers were encoded in what several states today call the constitution. In our country's current state, I slowly realized how much the separation of powers imbibed in the constitution serves only as a reminder, but that it takes no particular effect to the actual exercise of these powers.
"Want to take a trip back in time and see the middle ages? Oh wait, we're here already."
We are currently caught in the middle of the "pork barrel scandal". For this entry, I would like to recognize my esteemed professor in administrative law for giving our class this assignment because it just made me realize how much immature, or premature our government really is-- even with our glorified president in power right now.
As I write here, the newspapers are scattered with clippings and opinions on these funds. The news currently states that our government plans on abolishing these funds in the next budget allocation and adds that due to the findings of misuse and misappropriation of the funds by legislators, the budget is set to be re-allocated to the branch of government that should be the one to hold the funds for projects. The executive branch being at the forefront of this seems to be appropriate. I would also agree with the budget reform plans that they should be the branch given the funds since they are the ones
Coming fresh from reading medieval history, the excruciating image of the reign of monarchs is still in my head. Because of this, I realized that there really is not much of a difference in the way they ruled and the way the state of our government is right now. I remember writing a few years ago in my political science essay that our government is still young and underdeveloped despite being in the advent of the age of technological advancements. It is sad to think, but I still hold that opinion today. The horrible part is probably that the whole scheme of it is familiar to that period of state governance when king-militants were necessary. I guess this shows just how much we have progressed in the area of state governance. Or has it?
But what I think is worse of it is that I held out hope for impending development. But to give the President the benefit of the doubt, I do believe and think that he is doing a better job than any of the past administrations-- other than Magsaysay of course.
What is it then with the medieval ages that I found is so familiar still in today's government? The discretion. Back then, the king held all the power subject to what he deemed would be a favorable decision to God's will. He gave grants and gifts to his kinsmen as a form of political alliance. This was to show that the power and resources were being distributed evenly so that they would reach the people, the ultimate beneficiaries of it all. He decides then who gets the royal titles, and the lands and riches that go along with them and who gets the favors from the royal treasury. Evidently, it is up to his good graces. The decision as to who gets what is decided by a single factor, political alliance. As a result, members of the royalty tried their best to be on the king and queen's favor in hopes of being given those titles.
Today those good graces and discretionary powers of the king are apparently still around. History would show us that several treaties and international conventions were signed to strip monarchs of such powers. Thus the formation of other forms of government. The laws were revised and the separation of powers were encoded in what several states today call the constitution. In our country's current state, I slowly realized how much the separation of powers imbibed in the constitution serves only as a reminder, but that it takes no particular effect to the actual exercise of these powers.
Dani
November 7, 2013- 10:42PM
Take everything with a grain of salt
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