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Restoring Vitaility To State And Local Politics By Correcting The Excessive Independance Of The Supreme Court, Paul D. Carrington
Restoring Vitaility To State And Local Politics By Correcting The Excessive Independance Of The Supreme Court, Paul D. Carrington
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This Article endorses the view of such political "conservatives" as Robert Bork, Pat Buchanan, Orrin Hatch, and Ed Meese that the Constitution of the United States is deeply flawed in conferring too large a political role on life-tenured Supreme Court Justices. It argues that a constitutional amendment to correct excessive judicial independance is long overdue, a conclusion, it contends, that ought be shared by all who believe, as the author does, that the right to self-government is the parent right on which our civil liberties and the market economy ultimately depend and that healthy institutions of self-government require substantial devolution …