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Judicial Influence And The United States Federal District Courts: A Case Study, Justin R. Hickerson
Judicial Influence And The United States Federal District Courts: A Case Study, Justin R. Hickerson
Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects
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“Government By A Few Conservative Men”: An Examination Of Louis Boudin’S Understanding Of The Abuse Of The Judicial Power And The Decline Of Judicial Restraint By The Supreme Court, Sarah A. Ballinger
“Government By A Few Conservative Men”: An Examination Of Louis Boudin’S Understanding Of The Abuse Of The Judicial Power And The Decline Of Judicial Restraint By The Supreme Court, Sarah A. Ballinger
Senior Theses and Projects
For the first 150 years of the existence of the judicial power, it was liberals who advocated for the limited role that the Supreme Court should play in America’s constitutional democracy. Since the 1960’s and the Civil Rights Movement, there has been an increase in liberal judicial activism. This thesis seeks to explore the progression of judicial restraint and activism over the history of the Supreme Court through the eyes of Louis Boudin, a constitutional expert writing in the 1930’s. Boudin, a radical liberal, asserts in Government By Judiciary that the judicial branch has been constantly expanding its own power …