Our judicial oligarchy /
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| OCLC: | 60734059 |
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| Sprog: | English |
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New York :
B.W. Huebsch,
1912.
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| Serier: | LLMC-digital (Series)
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| Online adgang: | LLMC Digital |
| Relaterede værker: | Print version:
Our judicial oligarchy. |
| Format: | Monograph Online adgang |
Indholdsfortegnelse:
- Popular distrust of the courts
- Why the people distrust the courts (A) the courts have usurped the power to declare laws unconstitutional
- Why the people distrust the courts (B) the courts have seized the power to declare some statutes invalid, because unconstitutional, have come to declare other statutes invalid merely because the judges disapprove the policy of such legislation
- Why the people distrust the courts (C) the judges by reading their own views into statutes, to the exclusion of the legislative intent, have made the judiciary, in effect, a lawmaking branch of the government
- Why the people distrust the courts (D) the poor man is not on an equality with the rich one before the courts
- Dangers of popular distrust of courts
- Suggestions concerning reforms in the judiciary.