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dated December 11, 1958: Growing democracies

Dr. Rajendra Prasad, addressing the Indonesian Parliament in Jakarta on December 10, said that the people in a parliamentary democracy must show “living consciousness” of their duties towards the State. This was particularly true, the Indian President said, of young and growing democracies for in the absence of such a consciousness there was the danger it might lead to “corruption of various types and degenerate into a rule by a faction or a junta.” Dr. Prasad said, “We are apt in the process of ruling to forget that enforcement of right is secondary. We must recognise as axiomatic that rights arise only out of duty well discharged and if duty is well performed the right will take care of itself.”

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