David's Hammer: The Case for an Activist JudiciaryCato Institute, 2007 - 188 lappuses Judicial activism is condemned by both right and left, for good reason--lawless courts are a threat to republican government. But challenging conventional wisdom, constitutional litigator Clint Bolick argues in David's Hammer: The Case for an Activist Judiciary that far worse is a judiciary that allows the other branches of government to run roughshod over precious liberties. For better or worse, only a vigorous judiciary can enforce the limits on executive and legislative action, protect constitution-al rights, and tame unelected bureaucrats. David's Hammer reclaims for the judiciary its intended role as the ultimate safeguard of a free society. |
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... Justice William H. Rehn- quist and Justices John Paul Stevens and Sandra Day O'Connor ) were still on the Court . Moreover , Justice Thomas believes no such thing as the dormant commerce clause exists and the rights often protected ...
... Justice William H. Rehn- quist and Justices John Paul Stevens and Sandra Day O'Connor ) were still on the Court . Moreover , Justice Thomas believes no such thing as the dormant commerce clause exists and the rights often protected ...
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... Justice Clarence Thomas voted 65.63 per- cent of the time to invalidate the laws , followed by Anthony Kennedy in 64.06 percent of the cases and Antonin Scalia 56.25 percent of the time . By contrast , the two Clinton appointees voted ...
... Justice Clarence Thomas voted 65.63 per- cent of the time to invalidate the laws , followed by Anthony Kennedy in 64.06 percent of the cases and Antonin Scalia 56.25 percent of the time . By contrast , the two Clinton appointees voted ...
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... 'Connor , Antonin Scalia , Anthony Kennedy , and Clarence Thomas , coupled with the elevation of William Rehnquist as chief justice, were the main ways in which this agenda was 70 DAVID'S HAMMER : THE CASE FOR AN ACTIVIST JUDICIARY.
... 'Connor , Antonin Scalia , Anthony Kennedy , and Clarence Thomas , coupled with the elevation of William Rehnquist as chief justice, were the main ways in which this agenda was 70 DAVID'S HAMMER : THE CASE FOR AN ACTIVIST JUDICIARY.
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... Justice Rehnquist and Justices O'Connor , Scalia , Kennedy , and Thomas — many of the pro - freedom decisions were the product of shifting majorities , with enough liberal and conservative justices aligning to produce positive results ...
... Justice Rehnquist and Justices O'Connor , Scalia , Kennedy , and Thomas — many of the pro - freedom decisions were the product of shifting majorities , with enough liberal and conservative justices aligning to produce positive results ...
73. lappuse
... Thomas are original- ists , although Scalia also exhibits strong majoritarian tendencies . Chief Justice Rehnquist was a majoritarian with originalist lean- ings - in other words , a jurist who tended strongly to defer to other branches ...
... Thomas are original- ists , although Scalia also exhibits strong majoritarian tendencies . Chief Justice Rehnquist was a majoritarian with originalist lean- ings - in other words , a jurist who tended strongly to defer to other branches ...
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SCHOOL CHOICE | 127 |
THE BECKONING FRONTIER | 139 |
AN ACTIVIST JUDICIARY FOR ALL THE RIGHT REASONS | 157 |
NOTES | 165 |
INDEX | 179 |
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36. lappuse - By a faction I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.
37. lappuse - No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity. With equal, nay with greater reason, a body of men are unfit to be both judges and parties at the same time; yet what are many of the most important acts of legislation, but so many judicial determinations, not indeed concerning the rights of single persons, but concerning the rights of large bodies of citizens? And what are the different classes of...
63. lappuse - The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts.
40. lappuse - The Constitution is either a superior, paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, and, like other acts, is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. If the former part of the alternative be true, then a legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law ; if the latter part be true, then written constitutions are absurd attempts on the part of the people to limit a power in its own nature illimitable.
64. lappuse - If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein If there are any circumstances which permit an exception, they do not now occur to us.
36. lappuse - Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. In our Governments the real power lies in the majority of the Community, and the invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents, but from acts in which the Government is the mere instrument of the major number of the Constituents.
62. lappuse - The fundamental theory of liberty upon which all governments in this Union repose excludes any general power of the State to standardize its children by forcing them to accept instruction from public teachers only. The child is not the mere creature of the State; those who nurture him and direct his destiny have the right, coupled with the high duty, to recognize and prepare him for additional obligations.
66. lappuse - If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a State has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his own house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.
51. lappuse - But in view of the Constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here. Our Constitution is color-blind and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.
54. lappuse - Into the review of statutes directed at particular religious ... or national ... or racial minorities . . . ; whether prejudice against discrete and Insular minorities may be a special condition, which tends seriously to curtail the operation of those political processes ordinarily to be relied upon to protect minorities, and which may call for a correspondingly more searching judicial scrutiny.