(1) The government is responsible for ensuring security to the citizen and providing facilities for education and health to all citizens, collect taxes, etc.
(2) It formulates and implements welfare schemes.
(3) Some person have to take decisions on how to go about these activities.
(4) Other have to implement these decisions.
(5) If disputes arise on these decisions or their implementation, there should be someone to determine what is right what is wrong.
(6) To attend to these tasks several arrangements have been made in all modern democracies.
(7) Such arrangement are called institutions. A democracy works well when the institutions perform functions assigned assigned to them.
(8) The constitution of any country lays down basic rule on the powers and functions of each Institution.
(9) The Prime Minister and the cabinet are institutions that take are important policies decisions.
(10) The Civil Servants, working togethers, are responsible for taking steps to implement the minister's decisions.
(11) The supreme court is an institution where dispute between citizens and government are finally settled.
(12) Working is institutions is not easy. Institutions involve rules and regulations. This can bind the hand of leaders.
(13) Institutions involve meetings, committees and routines; this often leads to delays and complications.
(14) Institution make it is difficult to have a good decision taken very quickly. But they also make it equally difficult to rush through a bad decision. That is why democratic government insist on Institutions.
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