| | AU: Annual Report 1997-1998 (section3) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | If this is the case, the minister must step down even though he or she has not done anything that might be punishable by law, or even known or should have known about events in his ministry. |
 | | As a rule, Folketinget has taken up a political position that places decisive emphasis on whether or not a minister has broken any law, and on whether, if this is in fact the case, the minister knew or should have known what he or she was doing. |
 | | Such anchoring of political responsibility within a legal frame of reference means, for example, that a minister who provides Folketinget with erroneousness or misleading answers because he has been incorrectly or poorly briefed by his civil servants will typically emerge from the political storm scot-free. |
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