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  • Justice Scalia’s Dissent [Juvenile Killers]

    03/01/2005 10:40:45 AM PST · by OXENinFLA · 270 replies · 6,997+ views
    FindLaw ^ | 3-01-05 | Justice Scalia
      Justice Scalia, with whom The Chief Justice and Justice Thomas join, dissenting. In urging approval of a constitution that gave life-tenured judges the power to nullify laws enacted by the people's representatives, Alexander Hamilton assured the citizens of New York that there was little risk in this, since "[t]he judiciary ... ha[s] neither FORCE nor WILL but merely judgment." The Federalist No. 78, p. 465 (C. Rossiter ed. 1961). But Hamilton had in mind a traditional judiciary, "bound down by strict rules and precedents which serve to define and point out their duty in every particular case that comes before them."...