Duality of functions In his book "The Public Philosophy" (1955), Walter Lippmann, the great journalist and liberal political theorist, wrote of the underlying duality of functions in democratic government: the governing power and the administration of the laws, and the initiative in legislating and representing the living persons who are governed. He wrote of the role of the president as follows: "The president's troubles can only increase as long as the impression exists that the essential policy decided upon will register the wishes of those who exert the greatest pressure. To govern them is to establish the certain knowledge that while the conferences and the commissions of the conflicting interests will be heard carefully and honestly, the national policy will not be the equation that they might agree upon. "As long as the conflicting interests involved in the issue are encouraged to think that they will decide it, that they are not merely claimants but are going to be the makers of the policy, just so long will they be incited to exert more and more pressure and to become more and more demanding." In the case of ex-president Duterte's arrest, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. As chief magistrate, he decided that it was in the nation's interest and the interest of justice to honor the country's obligations to the ICC, and to heed the clamor for justice for the thousands of victims of the drug war, so he permitted our police authorities to serve the ICC arrest warrant on ex-president Duterte and thereafter to turn him over to the jurisdiction of the ICC. Read Full Story
