Let the people speak

IN any revolution the theme always comes down to the question made famous in the musical, "Les Miserables" — "Can you hear the people sing?"

In the current public discussions of whether or not to amend the 1987 Charter, to what ends, and in what manner, one misses a rather fundamental context: Are the rules geared to giving the people a chance to have their own voice and sing their own song? Or is it again a game of the one and the few, excluding the many?