It would have strengthened royal power, made all officials answerable to the Sejm, placed the clergy and their finances under state supervision, and deprived landless szlachta of many of their legal immunities.
At least elected officials are answerable to the people, right?
And that's not all: four days earlier, a Putin decree corralled the governors' 89 provinces into 7 new administrative districts, each overseen by a regional official who is answerable directly to Mr. Putin, and no one else.
Here in the Knin region, the official said, police forces answerable to the Serbian authorities blow up Croatian homes and Roman Catholic churches in retaliation for similar bombings of Serbian homes and Eastern Orthodox churches just across the front in Croatia.
The answer is ANSWERABLE.
The answer is that it can't, because the officials who decide on such issues are answerable to the upper level officials, not to the people in the region; and it is the local people themselves, not the upper level government, who know best what they want.
The police and border officials, for example, are largely answerable to the Interior Ministry, which has been seen (often correctly) as a pawn of Shiite political movements.
Courts should be removed from the jurisdiction of local officials but will still be answerable to the party at a higher level, the communique pledged; files should be kept to record when party officials get involved in legal matters, while judges should be chosen from the ranks of legal professionals.
He would then have the mandate to fight endemic corruption; overhaul Japan's rotten-borough parliamentary system (wherein one rural voter is the equivalent of five urban voters); slash taxes; perform needed surgery on the banks and other financial service providers; and make his country's imperious bureaucracies answerable to elected officials.
He was answerable not to any official in Tehran, he explained, but to Sharia law.
