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Judicial supremacy


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    • found: Work cat.: 59007256: Haines, C.G. The American doctrine of judicial supremacy, 1959:p. 27 (The principles of law and political practice which place the guardianship of the expressed and implied terms of written constitutions primarily in courts of justice, and the dominance of judge-made law in accordance with common-law standards and principles, constitute the basis of what may appropriately be termed 'The American doctrine of judicial supremacy.'.
    • found: Britannica online, Mar. 3, 2004:judicial supremacy ("Law, philosophy of" : Historical survey of legal theories : The Renaissance period to the 18th century : Judicial supremacy; [excerpt]: "The power of the judiciary to 'review' legislation for consistency with a written constitution was taken in the United States to import the power to declare it void, constitutional law being analogized to natural law. Indeed, American judicial statements of 1814, 1822, and 1831 asserted the power of the judiciary to strike down statutes for violation not only of explicit constitutional restraints but also of "eternal principles of justice which no government has a right to disregard ...")
    • found: Legal periodicals full text via Wilson Web, Mar. 3, 2004(thesaurus term: judicial supremacy; 15 hits; broader term: Judicial review)
    • found: OCLC, Mar. 3, 2004(59 hits for keyword title search of "judicial supremacy")
    • found: LegalTrac WWW site, Mar. 3, 2004:(33 hits for keyword search of "judicial supremacy")
    • notfound: Black's law dict.;Duhaime's legal dict. WWW site, Mar. 3, 2004;Law.com dict. WWW site, Mar. 3, 2004;Everybody's legal dict. WWW site, Mar. 3, 2004
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