Date: April 22nd, 2005

Binding the sovereign

22 April, 2005 (10:24) | Primer Posts |

How do stakeholders (citizens or copmpanies doing business with a government) assure their government treats fairly with them?  What prevents government, the enforcer of rules, from failing to enforce its own rules or changing them for its own convenience?  < ?xml:namespace prefix ="" o />
 
Nearly 250 years ago, Rousseau first posed the question:
 
[P]ublic deliberation, while [...]