And who is the public, and what do they believe their interest is? The public is made up of many millions of individuals, all of whom have different opinions about what the public interest is. Do we decide by voting, where the 51% is permitted to bully the 49% into accepting their version of the “public interest”? If, say, the majority decides that beating and shooting a minority (say, Euromaidan supporters in Crimea) is in the “public interest”, is that ok because a majority is behind it?
