November 28, 2018 Wednesday
Bedtime Story
Federal Judiciary of the United States
We had discussed the role of immense resources
required for enabling smooth functioning of a trustworthy and a fair and
efficient justice criminal system to the people of a society.
Such a system serves as an effectual
deterrent to crime; the fear of being caught and convicted does instills far
more fear than any of our mythical gods.
If it is all about resources then what
about the world’s largest economy with holds the world’s maximum trust to
reimburse its debts?
The federal judiciary of the United States
(consisting of three-tier system of district courts, courts of appeals and the
Supreme Court) has a variable conviction rate ranging from 75% to 85% with
around 80% in the state of California and as low as 60% in the state of
Florida).
Federal judiciary of the United States is
one of the three arms of its federal government that besides judiciary also
includes legislative and executive very much similar to the system that the
government of India is based upon.
I must admit that the modern constitution
of India that demarcates the fundamental political code, power and duties of
various government arms and framed by B. R. Ambedkar (he is considered the
chief architect even though the Constituent Assembly had 389 members) came much
later than the American constitution.
It was obviously inspired and perhaps parts
of it even directly copied from various other constitutions including those of
United Kingdom, the United States and Soviet Union.
I would also like to emphasize that the
Constituent Assembly was not elected directly by the people of un-partitioned
India through the principle of universal adult suffrage yet it represented the
wide diversity of thoughts including conservative industrialists, radical
Marxists and Hindu revivalists.
While it is widely believed that the main
purpose of the creation of the Constituent Assembly of India even before the
independence was to draft the constitution for an independent India which would
be born in a few years to come its true scope was much wider.
Nehru in one of the many debates in the
Assembly expressed the scope with the following words:
“The first task of this Assembly is to free
India through a new constitution, to feed the starving people, and to clothe
the naked masses, and to give every Indian the fullest opportunity to develop
himself according to capacity.
This is certainly a great task.
Look at India today.
We, are sitting here and there in despair
in many places, and unrest in many cities.
The atmosphere is surcharged with these
quarrels and feuds which are called communal disturbances, and unfortunately we
sometimes cannot avoid them.
But at present the greatest and most
important question in India is how to solve the problem of the poor and the
starving.”
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Subhashish Chattopadhyay in Bangalore, India.
While I narrate stories, Professor Subhashish an electronic
engineer and a former professor at BARC, does and teaches real mathematics and
physics.
He started the participation of Indian students at the
International Physics Olympiad.
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