{"product_id":"judicial-independence-and-the-american-constitution","title":"Judicial Independence and the American Constitution","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Framers of the American Constitution took special pains to ensure that the governing principles of the republic were insulated from the reach of simple majorities. Only super-majoritarian amendments could modify these fundamental constitutional dictates. The Framers established a judicial branch shielded from direct majoritarian political accountability to protect and enforce these constitutional limits. Paradoxically, only a counter-majoritarian judicial branch could ensure the continued vitality of our representational form of government.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis important lesson of the paradox of American democracy has been challenged and often ignored by office holders and legal scholars. \u003ci\u003eJudicial Independence and the American Constitution\u003c\/i\u003e provocatively defends the centrality of these special protections of judicial independence. Martin H. Redish explains how the nation's system of counter-majoritarian constitutionalism cannot survive absent the vesting of final powers of constitutional interpretation and enforcement in the one branch of government expressly protected by the Constitution from direct political accountability: the judicial branch. He uncovers how the current framework of American constitutional law has been unwisely allowed to threaten or undermine these core precepts of judicial independence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Martin H. Redish","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53614550548860,"sku":"9780804792905","price":56.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9780804792905_2652cf00-3d7f-492b-8571-cf8b0a57d8cc.jpg?v=1727346659","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/judicial-independence-and-the-american-constitution","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}