issue 24 求猛拍！！！路过大神请进

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It has been a long-term controversy that whether people in power are most effective when they exercise caution and restraint in the use of power. As far as I am concerned, it is a little bit hasty to say how the people in position of power could be most effective under different situations. Totally speaking, keeping caution and restraint in the use of power can prevent from abuse of the power instead of achieving high efficiency.

Initially, effective means to meet the purpose at minimum cost which includes money, time, and resources and so on. According to this definition, we can abstract two crucial points about justifying whether people are effective or not which are achieving the purpose and using minimum cost. And it is easy for us to find some cases which support the viewpoint. The first one I want to put forward is the famous Marbury v. Madison. In this case, the new chief justice, John Marshall didn’t abuse the power of the Court to direct William Marbury delivering the commissions although he was a Federalist. Because of this, The Court set up the authority and just as George Washington helped shape the actual form that the executive branch would take, so the third chief justice, John Marshall, shaped the role that the courts would play. Besides, the Emperor Yangdi in Sui Dynasty can support the argument form the opposite. The Emperor Yangdi is an authoritarian centralized emperor famous for his tyranny. He levied millions of labor to build places and canal from Beijing to Yangzhou. Even though the canal becomes economic dynamo and thus traders are to be found everywhere, but he was failed due to his unconscionably using of power. Therefore, people in power should exercise caution and restraint in the use of that power to make sure them are effective.

However, some times, keeping caution and restraint in the use of power only lead to ineffective.
Hurricane Katrina attacked in New Orleans in August 29, 2005, Monday morning 6:10 pm. Five hours after landing, Federal Emergency Bureau Chief Michael brown required sending 1000 rescuers to the disaster areas in two days. But at that time, President Bush was still on vocation. The Headquarters was established after 36 hours and claimed beginning to work tomorrow. Although every thing was done in strict accordance with the system, but the tremendous aftermath prove that this rescue was ineffective. Compared with China, when earthquake happened in Wenchuan, rescue commands were delivered after 2 hours and thousands of people are devoted into the rescue immediately. When we are confronted with issues which require fast reactions, may be it is not necessary to use the power that caution.

In sum, the bias on using of power should be variable according to diverse situations. There is no universal method to make judge at different times. Keeping caution and restraint in the use of power can prevent from abuse, but when it comes to the efficiency, answers are not that clear.