Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Yale Law Journal
Abstract
Part V. Presents information on the problems of legal preoccupation with countermajoritarianism and real political theory in the U.S. Details on the academic obsession with countermajoritarian problems; Background on democratic legitimacy of courts; Countermajoritarianism criticisms on judicial supremacy, constitutional indeterminacy, democracy and the court's work; Examination of the history of the Supreme Court and its resulting divergence of judicial reviews and public reactions.
First Page
153
DOI
https://doi.org/10.2307/1562239
Volume
112
Publication Date
2002
Recommended Citation
Barry Friedman,
The Birth of an Academic Obsession: The History of the Countermajoritarian Difficulty, Part Five,
112
Yale Law Journal
153
(2002).
Available at:
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-articles/433
