Democratic Leadership and Judicial Power in America

FAIN: FB-11415-72

California State University, Northridge (Northridge, CA 91330-0001)
Sylvia Snowiss (Project Director: September 1972 to present)

To join the ongoing debate over the democratic character of judicial review. The tension between this exercise of Court power and democracy is attributed to the policy choices widely acknowledged to be an inescapable part of judicial review, yet considered to be improper when made by a non-elective and non-responsible Court.