time they also often overlook possible arguments on the other side, and would lead us to deny
the most obvious facets of social existence or its most worthwhile values. This is why we
cannot take the Western formula completely in place of ours. In contrast with individualism,
we would not demand the abolition of the self and the consecration of every individual life
into a facet of the Common Whole, to live as a part of public trust.
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It would be unfortunate if we have to face a choice between the two: inequality and
insecurity, or bureaucracy and regimentation. It should not appear as if we must choose
between "freedom without justice" or "justice without freedom".
Let me conclude with an expression of some hope that the disparity between the two systems
would be diluted to something less than an opposition.
Difficulties in Enforcing a Written Constitution
To Be Mutually Understood And Politically Tolerated in
Order to Seek Common Grounds While Preserving Differences
1.
Need for A Special Machinery
The Royal Commission on the Constitution has recorded various suggestions for reform about
the encroachment of government on freedoms and rights of individual. Some advocate a
general Bill of Rights, a basic code of rights and freedoms which the citizen could fall back
on in all circumstances; others a comprehensive system of administrative courts to which a
citizen could appeal when aggrieved by a government decision. "Others suggested that the
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