The past decade has been a period of excessive fluctuation in the distribution and exercise of power in Jordan, and the land and the people have passed through some of the most agonizing moments of their history. The political climate has been polluted with suspicion and repression, and even when peace and tranquility returned, the determinants were the external factors, rather than the internal maturity and harmony of the system to create conditions of life which could ensure respect for law and liberties among the rulers, and trust and confidence among the subjects.