PHILOS 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Statutory Law, Precommitment, List Of Civilisations In The Culture Series
15 Apr 2016
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It is, a courts authority to examine an execuive or legislaive act and to invalidate that act if it is contradictory to consituional principles: no legal standing. Nevertheless despite these rules, there are sill those who argue that allowing what are typically unelected judges decide the outcome of important consituional maters (which, by deiniion, consitute the law of the land ) is an afront to democracy. Consituions as living trees: an idiot defends w. j waluchow (prof) I cannot restrain myself from saying that anyone who thinks a narraive like this appropriately modelled by the story of ulysses and the sirens is an idoit. Ulysses and the sirens (1891): bound to hear the sirens sing. Relates to charters bound by laws in case we do something. Objecive of the aricle: to defend : charter of rights, charter interpretaion under the pracice of judicial review. The basis upon which waldron"s argument against charters and judicial review rests:
