Written constitutions, democracy and judicial interpretation: the hobgoblin of judicial activism.(Issues Facing the Judiciary)

The world has become more democratic. With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the extremity of the Cold War, ostensibly democratic states have emerg completely through the areas formerly designated as the next to the first and Third Worlds. The establishment of these fresh regimes has usually been accompanied through the promulgation of written constitutions that provide for a certain quantity of form of judicial review. Because significant constitutional clauses are not self-defining, the justices upon the constitutional court must fall back on extraconstitutional ideas to aid their interpretations.

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