The 38th World Congress of Institut International de Sociologie
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Notes on Archives
Legislation decides what administration should do. Administration does what legislation orders to do. Judicature decides whether administrative execution is done legally fair. Records and Documents are classified and stored to represent executive process and to testify that the process is fair.
It is possible and probable to assume that administrative execution does harm to people even If it is legally fair.―20080215
It was in September 2005 that I visited Australian archives, NAA: National Archives of Australia in Canberra, and PROV: Public Record Office Victoria in Melbourne, for the first time, which was the start point of my study on archives as a tool for democracy.
Let me simplify and describe my view on archives.
Sovereign power is divided into three sub-powers: legislative power, administrative power, and judiciary power, each of them being distributed to parliament (congress, diet...), government, and court. Legislation set up projects and rules to be perfromed by government and administration does the projects in obedience to the rules. Archives of government store documents and records which prove that government's execution and performance are done legally fair. But, of course, to be legally fair does not mean to be perfectly fair.―20080213
