The Supreme Court and Critical Elections

作者: Richard Funston

DOI: 10.2307/1958390

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摘要: Several years ago Professor Robert Dahl argued that the traditional concern over Supreme Court's power of judicial review was largely unfounded. demonstrated seldom, if ever, had Court been successful in blocking will a law-making majority. This paper argues that, considered his data from different perspective, he would have discovered by virtue recruitment process, rarely even attempt to thwart Examining Dahl's context Survey Research Center's election classification scheme, focuses on relation patterns partisan change show philosophic with counter-majoritarian nature is divorced empirical reality and has relevance only during periods realignment within political system as whole. The buttresses argument “yea-saying” more important than its “nay-saying” power, realization which can serve premise logically consistent justification may be dialectically constructed.

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