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Members of Congress, of both parties, often are exhorted to “forget politics?” and “do the right thing”. This is an excellent tenet, of course, if, by it, we mean the exercise of best judgment in the interest of those one represents, without special regard for purely personal considerations. There are times in which a conscientious, legislator, having the benefit of more thorough examination of the implications of a piece of legislation, should be expected to vote contrary to the indicated majority view of his constituents, who have not had the opportunity to consider the bill fully.
On the other hand, to suggest that an elected Representative or Senator consistently follow a line of action contrary to the determinable will of his constituency, because “the people don’t know what’s good for them”, is to subscribe to an autocratic philosophy. It would nullify the strength and value of our verbose, seemingly haphazard method of lawmaking, which, despite its “inefficiency”, has proved its responsiveness to shifts in a people’s concept of governmental function, and preserved them from a dictatorship of selfst\led “best-minds.”
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