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But the parliament and (more indirectly) the council were chosen by the people to exercise power on their behalf in democratic elections.

• TomMarius 8y ago
  I am sick of people using this as some kind of an universal argument. The communist party in 1946 was also elected lawfully in my country, and Hitler also was (and yes, I'm fully aware that he lied to the German people - that's the point). And the fact that someone elected these people does not change anything about the possibility of them lying to the people that elected them, and it also changes nothing about the lawful and moral obligation these people have to their people (people they represent - all citizens of their country, not "people that voted for them"!) that they should act in their best interests - which they can just not do at any time, such as now, which makes this argument irrelevant.
  • gpderetta 8y ago
    That's why it is important that the 'will of the people' is bounded by a strong, hard to modify, constitution.
    • anoncake 8y ago
      But that constitution, if legitimate, expresses the will of the people itself. So what really happens is that the principles of the people bound the whims of the people.
      • TomMarius 8y ago
        Many constitutions were written by some "wise father of the nation".