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Rupert E. Henry

May 6, 2008

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Rupert E. Henry

Good in theory bad in practice

Text Box: The problem of power, how to divide it and how to control it, is a problem faced by Constitutional drafters everywhere. In many countries the problem of ‘constitutionalism’ in government has been seen as one of how to promote stability and good governance by ensuring that no single institution or group of people is vested with unlimited power of the kind that experience shows may breed oppression and corruption in government. This is commonly sought to be achieved by providing for a balancing of powers between a number of power-holding institutions The drafters of Antigua’s constitution adopted the traditional Western technique of dividing the total governmental power into the celebrated tripartite system of legislative, executive and judicial powers’. However they made an error which made everything null and void. They allowed persons from parliament, the legislative to be a part of cabinet, the executive. This error was compounded giving the Prime Minister the authority to decide who should be a minister and who should not be a minister. We need to correct these errors. Rupert E. Henry