Democracy, Liberty, and Judicial Review
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- Hardcover
330 pages
- Release Date
31 December 2025
Summary
The Guardians of Democracy: Why Judicial Review is Essential for Liberty
Contemporary democratic theory often suggests that the majority’s will should determine fundamental rights, not the courts. However, this view misunderstands democracy, where judicial protection of basic liberties is integral to governance.
Recent Supreme Court decisions have challenged the defense of judicial review, seemingly validating its critics. Are sceptics correct that an unrepresentative branch…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781009661560 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1009661566 |
| Author: | Alexander Kaufman |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Imprint: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 330 |
| Release Date: | 31 December 2025 |
| Weight: | 500g |
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‘Democracy, Liberty, and Judicial Review is an excellent deep dive into one of the fundamental questions of political theory: can a court function not as a limit on democracy, but in its service? Kaufman offers a deft and compelling answer-one that anyone grappling with this perennial question will need to contend with.’ Corey Brettschneider, Professor of Political Science, Brown University
About The Author
Alexander Kaufman
Alexander Kaufman is Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Georgia. His research explores the relation of central values of the democratic tradition to issues in egalitarian justice and the basis of democratic legitimacy. Professor Kaufman is the author of Rawls’s Egalitarianism (Cambridge, 2018) and Welfare in the Kantian State (Oxford, 1999) as well as numerous articles and chapters in edited volumes.
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