However, there is little evidence so far that these discussions have had any significant impact on the magistracy, which remains very much an instrument of the most powerful magistrates. As John Foster Dulles wrote in a somewhat prescient fashion in 1950:
但是，迄今还没有多少证据表明这种讨论对行政管理机关产生了任何大的影响，它在很大程度上依然是最有势力的行政长官的一个工具。