The public would trust judges more than politicians to uphold the rule of law and maintain a fair balance between security and liberty.

Our police force exists not to subject citizens to the will of power, but to uphold the rule of law, to which power also must answer.

An example of the strictness of the discipline might be the rule regarding eating: they uphold the rule to only eat between dawn and noon.

You see, most leaders come into their positions promising to obey the rules, to uphold the rules, to enforce the rules.

But just as important, it has demonstrated that a left-of-centre government can pursue social programmes while upholding the rule of law and constitutional democracy.