David's Hammer

Download or read book David's Hammer written by Clint Bolick and published by Cato Institute. This book was released on 2007 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judicial activism is condemned by both right and left, for good reason: lawless courts are a threat to republican government. But challenging conventional wisdom, constitutional litigator Clint Bolick argues in Davids Hammer that far worse is a judiciary that allows the other branches of government to run roughshod over precious liberties. That, Bolick demonstrates, is exactly the role the framers intended the courts to play, envisioning a judiciary deferential to proper democratic governance but bold in defense of freedom. But the historical record is painfully uneven. During the Warren era.