TR EMERITUS

Part 1 - Sovereignty of the Electorate Baron de Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws (in French), 1748. In the republican, the people in a body possess the sovereign power. Montesquieu wrote in his seminal work on political theory: in a democracy, the People are sovereign (in modern parlance). In other words, the electorate... 

The best thing that happened at the organized protest at Hong Lim Park which saw about four thousand participants was the presence of children holding placards. This is a good sign. The protest by their parents and elders over the population White Paper is something the kids may not quite understand yet, but the fact is the... 

When it was apparent after nomination day that the fight would be between the ruling party and the Workers’ Party, it also seemed that though the election results would be close – the ruling elite would win. However, after listening to a videoclip of the newly elected opposition MP when she was still a candidate, some of...