Updated at 9.43am GMT 9.38am GMT Nick Clegg's decision to back the justice and security bill (aka, the "secret courts" bill) is particularly contentious because the Lib Dem conference passed a motion opposing "secret courts" last autumn.
Labor leaders say they do not oppose secret-ballot elections, but rather the bitter two-month management-versus-union campaigns that often precede elections.
But we are opposed to secret diplomacy and can afford to act openly before all people.
Mill's judgments could be badly skewed; he profoundly misjudged Robert Peel as "perhaps the least gifted man that has ever headed a powerful party"; he opposed the secret ballot, in the belief that political principles should be declared publicly.
A party opposed to secret trials, they say, should not use them against their own members.
From the actors' view, these were the bottlenecks where "local governments did not comply with the central government they agreed overtly but opposed in secret" (field interview, Sep. 25, 2005).
They are from two different political parties, with opposed goals.These secret political parties operating in our midst are so veiled in terms of money, and so small in terms of core people, that they can operate unnoticed.
Similar numbers oppose the secret Fisa court process that we have disclosed".
But I also oppose the secret air war in my country – waged by the US, apparently with covert support from the UK and others.
Many Lib Dems feel emboldened to rebel after their party conference voted firmly to oppose more secret courts.
