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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99. lappuse
... property ownership , and the like . In response , the Reconstruction Congress , which was imbued with natural - rights principles like no set of legislators since the Founders , enacted the Civil Rights Act of 1866. The law extended to ...
... property ownership , and the like . In response , the Reconstruction Congress , which was imbued with natural - rights principles like no set of legislators since the Founders , enacted the Civil Rights Act of 1866. The law extended to ...
114. lappuse
... land to transfer from one private owner to another . When Kelo and her neighbors went to court to try to stop the condemnation , however , they were turned away without relief . Economic development , the state courts reasoned ...
... land to transfer from one private owner to another . When Kelo and her neighbors went to court to try to stop the condemnation , however , they were turned away without relief . Economic development , the state courts reasoned ...
115. lappuse
... property as part of a slum clearance project in the District of Columbia . Their property was not blighted , its taking was unnecessary for slum clearance , and the property would be given to a different business owner . For all those ...
... property as part of a slum clearance project in the District of Columbia . Their property was not blighted , its taking was unnecessary for slum clearance , and the property would be given to a different business owner . For all those ...
116. lappuse
... owners . So the state decided to condemn parcels of property in order to transfer title from the owners to the tenants . The scheme was breath- taking in scope , yet upheld once again by a unanimous decision of the U.S. Supreme Court ...
... owners . So the state decided to condemn parcels of property in order to transfer title from the owners to the tenants . The scheme was breath- taking in scope , yet upheld once again by a unanimous decision of the U.S. Supreme Court ...
117. lappuse
... property ownership by providing safeguards against excessive , unpredictable , or unfair use of the government's eminent domain power - particularly against owners who , for whatever reasons , may be unable to protect themselves in the ...
... property ownership by providing safeguards against excessive , unpredictable , or unfair use of the government's eminent domain power - particularly against owners who , for whatever reasons , may be unable to protect themselves in the ...
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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.