Key Factors for the Sustainability of Governmental Systems
In the modern era, an effective and efficient governmental system is essential to a nation’s prosperity and well-being. Even with the inclusion of these key components of government, a society still has the potential to collapse. As demonstrated in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, a group of boys struggle to maintain law and order after a horrific plane crash leaves them to fend for themselves and create their own functioning society. Ralph, the twelve-year-old boy elected to lead the tribe, attempts to govern the group in a democratic, peaceful manner, directly contrasting Jack, an egoistic boy that craves power for himself and will strive to obtain it at any cost. Over time, they struggle to cooperate to form a stable society, and their miscommunication and lack of unity result in the deaths of two boys, as well as …show more content…
Due to the boys’ failure to implement a separation of powers and create a fair judicial system, the signature ideals of Enlightenment thinkers Baron de Montesquieu and Cesare Beccaria, they fail to effectively and efficiently govern themselves, they accelerate the disintegration of their already-feeble society, ultimately resulting in a state of tribal warfare and the emergence of a tyrannical dictatorship. Numerous modern governmental systems include a separation of powers, first idealized by Baron de Montesquieu, to limit the prevalence of tyranny, although the boys’ lack this essential component of government, leading to a state of absolute tyranny and dictatorship. In his principal literary work, The Spirit of the Laws, published in 1748, he lays out the fundamental prerequisites for such a governmental component, stating that a functional system must contain three primary branches - one judicial to interpret laws, one legislative to formulate laws, and one executive to enforce laws (Montesquieu 33). The purpose of these three
In the modern era, an effective and efficient governmental system is essential to a nation’s prosperity and well-being. Even with the inclusion of these key components of government, a society still has the potential to collapse. As demonstrated in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, a group of boys struggle to maintain law and order after a horrific plane crash leaves them to fend for themselves and create their own functioning society. Ralph, the twelve-year-old boy elected to lead the tribe, attempts to govern the group in a democratic, peaceful manner, directly contrasting Jack, an egoistic boy that craves power for himself and will strive to obtain it at any cost. Over time, they struggle to cooperate to form a stable society, and their miscommunication and lack of unity result in the deaths of two boys, as well as …show more content…
Due to the boys’ failure to implement a separation of powers and create a fair judicial system, the signature ideals of Enlightenment thinkers Baron de Montesquieu and Cesare Beccaria, they fail to effectively and efficiently govern themselves, they accelerate the disintegration of their already-feeble society, ultimately resulting in a state of tribal warfare and the emergence of a tyrannical dictatorship. Numerous modern governmental systems include a separation of powers, first idealized by Baron de Montesquieu, to limit the prevalence of tyranny, although the boys’ lack this essential component of government, leading to a state of absolute tyranny and dictatorship. In his principal literary work, The Spirit of the Laws, published in 1748, he lays out the fundamental prerequisites for such a governmental component, stating that a functional system must contain three primary branches - one judicial to interpret laws, one legislative to formulate laws, and one executive to enforce laws (Montesquieu 33). The purpose of these three