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democratisation,
First,
there are
two
sides.
there are those who demand the
maximum immediate progress, appealing to
Hong Kong's obvious sophistication and
maturity, whether measured in terms of
economic achievement, educational standards,
Or any other index of development. Second,
have those who argue that every society
must develop its democratic institutions at
that to force the pace will
we
its own pace
put a strain
arrangements
in 1997.
on our unique constitutional
and make convergence difficult
CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Constraints on Progress
113.
I Owe it to the community to make
пу own position plain. I have spent my
entire career engaged in a political system
based on representative democracy. It would
be surprising if that had not marked me. It
I have always been moved by Isaiah
Berlin's description of democracy as "the
view that the promotion of social justice
individual liberty does not necessarily
mean the end of all efficient government;
has.
and
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