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[As Immanuel Kant says, �to recognize that autonomy is the highest human good, humans have to disentangle themselves from the �leading strings� by which the guardians priests, lawyers, and the rulers have made them �domesticated animals�. According to Kant, only the enlightened can form a state. In the recent times, what Myanmar is strongly lacking, is a strong civil society. Ashley South is in favor not only does the country lack a strong civil society but has also proposed ideas as to what would enable the country to have a civil society in the future. Albert P. Blaustein states that states should be based on civic, rather ethnic or national principle. This will enable the people to have an equal stand in the society. There should not be any �insider� or �outsider. If a country is not homogenous in terms of religion, language, ethnicity or culture, then there needs to be a largely felt commitment to the rights of minority groups. Therefore, in the recent times, there has been a call for the formation of the second Panglong Agreement minority concerns and d that would address the determine the ethnic principles for the future union. Suu Kyi�s idea of the second Panglong Agreement Conference was denounced by the state and therefore, the crisis of a union still stands firm in Myanmar. Further, according to Robert Conquest, even if democracy is brought about in a nondemocratic s democratic society, it cannot function without a fair level of political social stability (Conquest, 2004). The idea of Conquest is particularly true in the case of Myanmar because right after independence, when the country entered into democracy for a while, intense political instability and unrest resulted into the toppling of the newly formed democracy. Conquest further argues that there is a strong need to cultivate a civic culture in a civil society (when formed) in which various elements can express themselves politically. This idea can be strongly related to the recent situation of Myanmar where the country lacks both the civil society and the independence of the mass media. The answer to both the problems of the country would be invariably democracy but as of now, Thein Sien has taken steps to allow the mass media to express their views and carry on the reform process. If one has to imagine the prevalence of democracy in Myanmar in the future, even then, according to conquest, perfect social order is unobtainable in any democratic state]