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<p>Is the American judiciary still the least dangerous branch, as Alexander Hamilton and legal scholar Alexander Bickel characterized it? Unlike legislatures or administrative agencies, courts do not make policy so much as direct and redirect policy as it is implemented. The judicial contribution to policymaking involves the infusion of constitutional rights into the realm of public policy, and as the government has grown, the courts have become more powerful from doing more and more of this. Po
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- Author
- Stephen P. Powers and Stanley Rothman
- Publisher
- Praeger; Bloomsbury
- Published
- 2002
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9798400677953
- Category
- law
- Subjects
- Judicial Power, Political Science, Judicial Branch
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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