In the United States, as in many democracies, people tacitly delegate policymaking
responsibilities to government and to specialists because everyone cannot
concern themselves with the day-to-day panoply of issues that government must
address. But in delegating these responsibilities we do not abandon our interest
in what the government does or how it does it (and sometimes the procedures the
government uses are at least as important as the goals to be achieved), or our right
to promote our own ideas of what constitutes the public interest when we are sufficiently
motivated.