Report comment

Lord Bingham said: "It must nonetheless be accepted that any Bill or Charter of Rights is, in one sense, undemocratic in that it is counter-majoritarian. Its purpose is to give a measure of protection to minorities who lack the strength and the representation to obtain protection through the political process: prisoners, mental patients, gypsies, homosexuals, asylum-seekers, despised racial or religious minorities and the like."

I prefer democracy.