{"id":4456,"date":"2013-10-21T08:58:31","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T12:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=4456"},"modified":"2013-11-20T16:56:40","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T21:56:40","slug":"10-proverbs-for-our-mps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=4456","title":{"rendered":"10 Proverbs for our MPs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>\n<w:WordDocument>\n<w:View>Normal<\/w:View>\n<w:Zoom>0<\/w:Zoom>\n<w:PunctuationKerning\/>\n<w:ValidateAgainstSchemas\/>\n<w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false<\/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>\n<w:IgnoreMixedContent>false<\/w:IgnoreMixedContent>\n<w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false<\/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>\n<w:Compatibility>\n<w:BreakWrappedTables\/>\n<w:SnapToGridInCell\/>\n<w:WrapTextWithPunct\/>\n<w:UseAsianBreakRules\/>\n<w:DontGrowAutofit\/>\n<w:UseFELayout\/>\n<\/w:Compatibility>\n<w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4<\/w:BrowserLevel>\n<\/w:WordDocument>\n<\/xml><![endif]--><\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>\n<w:LatentStyles DefLockedState=\"false\" LatentStyleCount=\"156\">\n<\/w:LatentStyles>\n<\/xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]>\n\n\n\n<style>\n \/* Style Definitions *\/\n table.MsoNormalTable\n\t{mso-style-name:\"Table Normal\";\n\tmso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;\n\tmso-tstyle-colband-size:0;\n\tmso-style-noshow:yes;\n\tmso-style-parent:\"\";\n\tmso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;\n\tmso-para-margin:0cm;\n\tmso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;\n\tmso-pagination:widow-orphan;\n\tfont-size:10.0pt;\n\tfont-family:\"Times New Roman\";\n\tmso-ansi-language:#0400;\n\tmso-fareast-language:#0400;\n\tmso-bidi-language:#0400;}\n<\/style>\n\n<![endif]--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Georgia;\">With the House of Commons back in Session, <em>By George Journal<\/em> thought it\u00a0helpful to provide our Members of Parliament with some fundamentals on appropriate conduct \u2013 daring to hope that their actions may be more productive (and civil) than in the past Sessions of Parliament.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Law is a necessary evil.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Pass as few laws as possible, consistent with the demands of justice and the maintenance of order.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Where custom is sufficient, there is no need for law.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Do not pass laws that cannot, or will not, be enforced, for such breed contempt for both the law and the State.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Penalties must be minimally sufficient to deter infractions, given adequate enforcement. Less renders the law ineffective; more inflicts unnecessary pain.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Georgia;\">There is an inverse proportion between the severity necessary to deter infractions and the certainty of punishment.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Enshrine your principles in constitutions, codify your common sense in laws, and leave the rest to regulation.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Even more than on your wisdom, the legitimacy of the State depends on your integrity.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Georgia;\">In public life, integrity requires not only an honest heart but an honest face.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Your primary object must always be not the satisfaction of your constituents but the continued legitimacy of the State, for upon that depends the welfare, even the survival, of us all.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Georgia;\">It bears repeating for those who might have skimmed over these words: <em>the legitimacy of the State depends on your integrity.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the House of Commons back in Session, By George Journal thought it\u00a0helpful to provide our Members of Parliament with some fundamentals on appropriate conduct \u2013 daring to hope that their actions may be more productive (and civil) than in the past Sessions of Parliament. 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