But the same people also in general accept the British way of deciding things - that MPs are elected to exercise their judgment; and providing parties are clear before elections, the democratic principle is safeguarded.
National League FLORIDA MARLINS--Announced RHP Brian Edmondson has elected to exercise his right of free agency.
They are able to play because the Nickell team, which won in Memphis, elected to exercise its right to play instead in the 2005 world championships.
Congress has elected to exercise this power under the detailed and comprehensive plan 15 for development of the Nation's water resources, which it prescribed in the Federal Power Act, to be administered by the Federal Power Commission.
The role of an MP is not simply to reflect what the majority of constituents think; rather, MPs are elected to exercise judgment and discretion on their constituents' behalf.
If it is, Obama cedes the one power he was elected to exercise: the power of leadership in the name of candor, lawfulness and clarity rather than deceit, secrecy and spin.
"Any government that says 'we will automatically do what Davies recommends' is abdicating the responsibility they were elected to exercise," she told a fringe meeting.
In turn, higher expectations for directors' conduct may serve to legitimate directors' capacity, once elected, to exercise discretion independent of intervention from shareholders.
Small groups of unelected, elitist judges end up substituting their own, highly contentious views about the proper limits of government power for the considered judgments of the people's representatives, e.g., those members of Congress or Parliament duly elected to exercise, on behalf of the people, the latter's sovereign right to participate in political decisions affecting their basic rights.
