Edited sentence: "The final court of appeal is not the court, nor the executive or the legislature, but the elec­torate as a whole.However, it is not generally agreed that violation of democratically determined standards does in fact undermine the democratic process.That men can achieve such an understanding and honor these limits when the basic political liberties are maintained is an as­sumption implicit in a democratic polity.The civilly disobedient appeal in a special way to this body.The contrary point of view is by no means an obscure or minority one, and is articulated in John Rawls' famous work, A Theory of Justice:.There is no danger of anarchy so long as there is a sufficient working agreement in citizens' conceptions of justice and the conditions for resorting to civil disobedience are respected