Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-177) and index.
Mrs. Swedenburg goes to court -- Judicial activism: everybody's favorite bogeyman -- The origins and importance of judicial review -- Judicial activism: the bad and the good -- The Rehnquist Court: a judicial counterrevolution fizzles out -- Model justice -- Economic liberty -- Private property rights -- School choice -- State constitutions: the beckoning frontier -- An activist judiciary, for all the right reasons.
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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 Davids Hammer that far worse is a judiciary that allows the other branches of government to run roughshod over precious liberties. That, Bolick demonstrates, is exactly the role the framers intended the courts to play, envisioning a judiciary deferential to proper democratic governance but bold in defense of freedom. But the historical record is painfully uneven. During the Warren era.
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