It is very difficult to reform politics through legal ways

"It is very difficult to reform politics through legal ways." Evaluate the statement. 

Answer

It is very difficult to reform politics through legal ways:

1. Carefully devised changes in law can help to discourage wrong political practices and encourage good ones.
2. Legal constitutional changes by themselves cannot overcome challenges to democracy.
3. Laws that give political actors incentives to do good things have more chances of working.
4. Any legal change must carefully look at what results it will have on politics. Sometimes the result may be counterproductive.
5. Democratic reforms are to carried out mainly by political activists, parties , movements and politically conscious citizens.
6. The best laws are those which empower people to carry out democratic reforms.
7. Democratic reforms are to be brought through political practices. Therefore the main focus should be on the ways to strengthen democratic practices.