A general election in a democratic community provides the people with their great opportunity to choose a Government. In the political sense it is their supreme moment. Once that choice has been exercised, the voter has used up pretty well all the power he has at his disposal. The party that secures the majority—whether it be a majority of two or twenty—can do more or less what it likes until another election comes round. The voter can growl and grumble as he will, but his share in the democratic set-up is in a large sense limited to the casting of his vote. Once he drops that fateful paper into the waiting ballot box, he is functus officio as we say and he's for it. If good Government results from the decision of himself and many others, they can count themselves lucky; if it doesn't, his main reaction will have to be, "Well, you caught me once, but never again."