The Cloaking of Power: Montesquieu, Blackstone, and the Rise of Judicial ActivismUniversity of Chicago Press, 2010 M02 15 - 349 páginas How did the US judiciary become so powerful—powerful enough that state and federal judges once vied to decide a presidential election? What does this prominence mean for the law, constitutionalism, and liberal democracy? In The Cloaking of Power, Paul O. Carrese provides a provocative analysis of the intellectual sources of today’s powerful judiciary, arguing that Montesquieu, in his Spirit of the Laws, first articulated a new conception of the separation of powers and strong but subtle courts. Montesquieu instructed statesmen to “cloak power” by placing judges at the center of politics, while concealing them behind juries and subtle reforms. Tracing this conception through Blackstone, Hamilton, and Tocqueville, Carrese shows how it led to the prominence of judges, courts, and lawyers in America today. But he places the blame for contemporary judicial activism squarely at the feet of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. and his jurisprudential revolution, which he believes to be the source of the now-prevalent view that judging is merely political. To address this crisis, Carrese argues for a rediscovery of an independent judiciary—one that blends prudence and natural law with common law and that observes the moderate jurisprudence of Montesquieu and Blackstone, balancing abstract principles with realistic views of human nature and institutions. He also advocates for a return to the complex constitutionalism of the American founders and Tocqueville and for judges who understand their responsibility to elevate citizens above individualism, instructing them in law and right. |
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... first teachers of political philosophy, Paul Nelson, Murray Dry, and Eve Adler, now are mentors and colleagues in liberal education. Along with several other teachers and mentors at Middlebury College and in Middlebury, they introduced ...
... first teachers of political philosophy, Paul Nelson, Murray Dry, and Eve Adler, now are mentors and colleagues in liberal education. Along with several other teachers and mentors at Middlebury College and in Middlebury, they introduced ...
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... first English translation of Thomas Nugent ( New York : Hafner , 1949 [ 1750 ] ) , with which Montesquieu and his friends were pleased . From 1750 to 1900 all editions of Nugent's translation used the more compact title , The Spirit of ...
... first English translation of Thomas Nugent ( New York : Hafner , 1949 [ 1750 ] ) , with which Montesquieu and his friends were pleased . From 1750 to 1900 all editions of Nugent's translation used the more compact title , The Spirit of ...
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... first edition of 1765–79 , with the sound intent of removing the accretions of later editors . The Hammond and Jones editions generally are preferable for scholars , how- ever , since Blackstone supervised changes to eight editions ...
... first edition of 1765–79 , with the sound intent of removing the accretions of later editors . The Hammond and Jones editions generally are preferable for scholars , how- ever , since Blackstone supervised changes to eight editions ...
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... first to propose a potent but discrete judicial power for liberal government , and that important issues about modern judicial power and its broader consequences require an understanding of his thought and legacy . Montesquieu ( 1689 ...
... first to propose a potent but discrete judicial power for liberal government , and that important issues about modern judicial power and its broader consequences require an understanding of his thought and legacy . Montesquieu ( 1689 ...
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... first such critics, in the name of both participatory politics and the legal, institutional integrity of the judiciary, and his arguments have been elaborated by a diverse group of legal scholars.7 Despite such concerns, the dominant ...
... first such critics, in the name of both participatory politics and the legal, institutional integrity of the judiciary, and his arguments have been elaborated by a diverse group of legal scholars.7 Despite such concerns, the dominant ...
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Blackstone and the Montesquieuan Constitution | 105 |
Montesquieus Judicial Legacy in America | 179 |
The Cloaking of Power and the Perpetuation of Constitutionalism | 257 |
Notes | 265 |
Bibliography | 295 |
Index | 315 |
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Página 199 - Courts of justice ; whose duty it must be to declare all Acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution void. Without this, all the reservations of particular rights or privileges would amount to nothing.
Página 199 - It is far more rational to suppose that the courts were designed to be an intermediate body between the people and the legislature, in order, among other things, to keep the latter within the limits assigned to their authority.
Página 249 - These matters, involving the most intimate and personal choices a person may make in a lifetime, choices central to personal dignity and autonomy...
Página 142 - For if it be found that the former decision is manifestly absurd or unjust, it is declared, not that such a sentence was bad law, but that it was not law ; that is, that it is not the established custom of the realm, as has been erroneously determined.
Página 159 - ... immediately to vacate their seats, and their full salaries are absolutely secured to them during the continuance of their commissions ; his majesty having been pleased to declare, that " he looked upon the independence and uprightness of the judges, as essential to the impartial administration of justice ; as one of the best securities of the rights and liberties of his subjects; and as most conducive to the honour of the crown.
Página 65 - That principle is, that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection.
Página 199 - This independence of the judges is equally requisite to / " guard the Constitution and the rights of individuals from the effects of those ill humors, which the arts of designing men, or the influence of particular conjunctures, sometimes disseminate among the people themselves...
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