A necessary facade: The noble and independent Judiciary

The notion of an honourable, noble and independent judiciary is a faade. But it is a necessary faade. For it is grounded in the idea of the rule of law. Lawyers and political scientists are guilty of presenting the rule of law as some sort of a cloistered ideal, a near religious apologue beyond the comprehension of lesser mortals. It is not.

It is in fact a basic human concept, intuition even, that orders and underpins every fibre of society. This is why five-year olds in a village playground instinctively seek an adult in the vicinity to settle their disputes. For even at that age, they understand that for the good of their limited universe, they are better off when their disputes are settled by pacific means. Therefore, they seek somebody not of their own, presumably of a higher moral disposition, above playground politics, to settle their disputes.