民有、民治、民享

“……民有、民治、民享”

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7307473/

哈普裏特·辛格·格羅弗

“讓這些死者不會白白死去——讓這個國家在上帝的領導下獲得自由的新生，讓民有、民治、民享的政府不會從地球上消失”（美國總統） 亞伯拉罕·林肯 (Abraham Lincoln) 葛底斯堡演說，1863 年 11 月 19 日）這是世界曆史上最著名的演說之一，也許也是任何形式的民主中最偉大、最有影響力的聲明之一。

自由和民主通常被認為是可以互換的，但兩者當然不是同義詞，可以有把握地假設民主是自由的製度化，而憲法是民主的堡壘。

現在問一個更相關的問題，什麽是憲法？ 答案是一套基本原則或既定先例，根據這些原則或既定先例來管理組織，並明確劃分分配給負責運營該組織的每個個人的職責。

“兩年零五年前”，印度牙周病學會的創始人還為該學會設想了一部章程，製定了一套指導我們社會管理的規則和條例。 我花了幾年時間研究協會的正式結構並觀察其運作，這讓我深信，讓廣大協會成員意識到這份最具影響力的管理文件中所包含的顯著特征是多麽沒有意義。

幾乎在過去十年中，我作為選委會成員和官員在社會中度過，從未遇到過任何正式的項目/研討會/迎新講座，致力於了解我們的憲法，即使是新任成員，他們很高興和熱情地了解我們的憲法 作為這個莊嚴機構的一員，繼續提出一項又一項奇特的建議來改變社會的某些運作方式，完全無視和忘記其背後的憲法條款。 事實上，如果任何此類建議的改變必須得到落實，就需要憲法授權的力量。 更不用說新成員了，甚至像你這樣的一些半退伍軍人也對憲法中規定的細微差別感到困惑（直到我開始仔細研究它，這是我工作的主要部分，我 我仍在學習），每個人都試圖根據自己的方便和理解或缺乏來分析它。

這是我的觀點，許多人私下都同意，如果有完全的理解並願意以最純粹的形式實踐憲法，那麽許多過去困擾社會並持續困擾社會的弊病是可以避免的。 。 向每個會員發送一份章程的數字副本以及會員編號應該成為一種規範。 每個執行成員和辦公室負責人都應該宣誓效忠我們的憲法，並且應該有迎新活動以更好地理解我們的聖書。 總部還應通過選舉委員會指定一些博學的退伍軍人作為顧問，向廣大會員傳播我們憲法的實質和靈魂。

作為這個最負盛名的組織的成員，我們有義務為下一代牙周病醫生這樣做。

ISP 非常您的。
“…Of the people, by the people, for the people”

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7307473/
Harpreet Singh Grover

“that these dead shall not have died in vain– that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth” (U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863) It is one of the best known speeches in world history and perhaps one of the greatest and the most influential statements for any form of democracy.

Freedom and democracy are often deemed interchangeable but the two are certainly not synonymous and it can safely be premised that democracy is the institutionalization of freedom and constitution is the bulwark of democracy.

Now to a more pertinent question, What is constitution? The answer is a set of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which an organization is governed making a clear demarcation of the responsibilities assigned to each individual responsible for running the organization.

“Two score and five years ago,” the founding fathers of Indian Society of Periodontology also envisioned a constitution for the society framing a set of rules and regulations guiding the administration of our society. Having spent some years in the formal structure of the society and looking at its functioning has convinced me no end as to how little significance has been attached into making vast number of society members aware of the salient features contained in this most influential governing document.

Almost the entire last decade spent within the society as an EC member and an office bearer, I have never come across any formal program/workshop/orientation lecture devoted to understanding our constitution even for the new incumbents, who happy and enthusiastic as they are to be a part of this august body continue to come up with one fanciful suggestion after another for changing certain workings of the society, completely ignorant and oblivious of the constitutional clauses behind it. The fact that the might of the constitutional mandate is required if any such suggested changes has to see the light of the day. What to talk of new members, even a number of semi-veterans like your's truly were also all at sea regarding the finer nuances enshrined in the constitution (till I started having a closer look at it that being a major part of my job and I am still learning), each trying to analyse it as per his/her own convenience and understanding or lack of it.

It is my perspective and privately many individuals agree to it that a lot of ills which have plagued the society in the past and continue to dog it even today could have been avoided had there been a complete understanding and willingness to practice constitution in its purest form. It should become a norm to send a digital copy of constitution to every member along with membership number. Every executive member and office bearer should take an oath of allegiance on our constitution and there should be orientation programs for a better comprehension of our holy book. Also head office through the EC should identify some of our learned veterans as resource persons to propagate the body and soul of our constitution to the general members.

As members of this most prestigious organization it is our beholden constitutional duty to do so for the coming generations of periodontists.

ISPlendidly Yours.