Direct Democracy and the Courts

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• Direct Democracy And The Courts available on April 06 2017 from VitalSource for itemprop="offers" target="_external" title="" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Offer">38.0
  
• ISBN bar code 9780511699924 ξ1 registered March 17 2016
  
• ISBN bar code 9780511699924 ξ2 registered April 06 2017
  
• Product category is Direct-Democracy-and-the-Courts Kenneth-P-Miller Book

• Sku # 9780511699924
  

Who should have the last word on fundamental policy issues? This book analyzes the rise of two contenders – the people, through direct democracy, and the courts. Introduced in the U.S. during the Progressive Era and now available in nearly half the states, direct democracy has surged in recent decades. Through ballot measures, voters have slashed taxes, mandated government spending, imposed term limits on elected officials, enacted campaign finance reform, barred affirmative action, banned same-sex marriage, and adopted many other controversial laws. In several states, citizens now bypass legislatures to make the most important policy decisions. However, the “people’s rule” is not absolute. This book demonstrates that courts have used an expanding power of judicial review to invalidate citizen-enacted laws at remarkably high rates. The resulting conflict between the people and the courts threatens to produce a popular backlash against judges and raises profound questions about the proper scope of popular sovereignty and judicial power in a constitutional system.

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