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To: inquest
From POST #1 - If one has trouble imagining judicial review so confined in its scope, it is probably because the modern American mind, conditioned by at least a half-century of judicial supremacy, can hardly help but regard the judicial branch as a co-equal partner in the public policy making process.
8 posted on 03/17/2003 10:42:49 AM PST by Remedy
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To: Remedy
I have to beg that you excuse me for not understanding, but are you agreeing with me or disagreeing? It's becoming difficult to tell where you're coming from. I certainly never argued that the judicial branch should be in any way part of the policy-making process, as that is an inherently political process, and judges are intended to be as apolitical as possible. But it is their job to determine, in the cases that arise before them, whether the policies they're being asked to uphold are in fact consistent with the Constitution.
9 posted on 03/17/2003 11:56:11 AM PST by inquest
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