ABSTRACT
Government based on principles of liberal democracy endeavours to ensure that the people who govern us do so with our consent (see above, 1.1.2). This implies several things: that the constitutional system permits people to choose their rulers in fair and regular elections; that between elections, rulers and officials working for them allow people to participate in collective decision making; and that laws and executive actions are open to challenge once they have been made. It is with the last of these things that we are now concerned.
