About the author : INTRODUCTION Thomas Hobbes famously wrote that, without civilization, human’s life is “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” So mankind built communities and have consistently had a leader chosen for them, be it a tribal chief, patriarchal master, king or queen . Two and a half million years ago, humans initiated an experiment with autonomous government, choosing their own rulers. And it has had varying degrees of success. A perennial problem, however, has been the corrupting influence … Continue reading Article 142 : ‘The Sweeping Power of the Supreme Court’ -Checks and Balance.