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Democracy, Liberty, and Judicial Review

by Alexander Kaufman
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781009661560
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press
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  • Pages: 314
  • Original Price: GBP 100.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 590 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): History & Theory

Contemporary democratic theory often posits that the will of the majority should resolve fundamental questions regarding rights, rather than the courts. However, this perspective misunderstands the essence of democracy, where the protection of basic liberties by the judiciary is, in fact, integral to democratic governance. Recent Supreme Court decisions have made it a challenging time to defend judicial review, seemingly validating the concerns of its critics. Are the sceptics correct in asserting that an unrepresentative branch should not decide fundamental questions about rights? Alexander Kaufman argues that such a conclusion overlooks the crucial role judicial review has played in modern democracies: dismantling Jim Crow laws, abolishing poll taxes, and striking down numerous other discriminatory laws enacted by elected representatives - laws that erode democratic values. Far from diluting democracy, judicial review is a vital component of it and abandoning this practice would be a concession to its adversaries.

Kaufman, Alexander: - Alexander Kaufman is Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Georgia. His research explores the relation of central values of the democratic tradition to issues in egalitarian justice and the basis of democratic legitimacy. He is the author of Rawls's Egalitarianism (Cambridge, 2018) and Welfare in the Kantian State (Oxford, 1999), as well as numerous articles and chapters in edited volumes.

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