The D.C. Circuit Task Force on Gender, Race and Ethnic Bias: political correctness rebuffed

Article Abstract:

A threat to the independent judicial process in the name of political correctness was narrowly averted in the District of Columbia Circuit due to the efforts of the new Chief Judge, Harry Edwards. The Task Force on Gender, Race, and Ethnic Bias conducted improper inquiries into personnel practices and judicial decision-making processes. The Task Force Report will be published without an endorsement from the Judicial Council, and criticisms of the Task Force will be included. Only the most uncontroversial recommendations of the the Task Force have been accepted by the Judicial Council.

United States, Political correctness

---

"Independent of heaven itself": differing Federalist and Anti-Federalist perspectives on the centralizing tendency of the federal judiciary

Article Abstract:

The Anti-Federalists were correct in discerning that the federal judiciary would promote the expansion of the federal government. As they saw, not enough constraints were placed on the judicial branch, which as a branch of the federal government tends to be biased in favor of an expansive interpretation of federal powers. A re-evaluation of the life tenure of federal judges may be one way to approach the problem.

Analysis, History, Judicial power, Decentralization in government, Government decentralization

---

The Federalist vision of a representative democracy

Article Abstract:

The Federalist emphasis on first principles needs to be remembered by judges today. For example, the issue of congressional district apportionment, currently being decided in federal district courts, raises basic questions concerning the nature of representative democracy and the role of the judiciary in resolving such political disputes.

Representative government and representation, Representative government

Similar abstracts:

• Abstracts: Leading the dance? Power and political resources of business lobbyists. Business and political dimensions in disaster management
• Abstracts: Senegal: the return of personalism. Ethnicity and political crisis in Cote d'Ivoire. Political turnover and social change in Senegal
• Abstracts: The curious case of Afghanistan. The politics of reform in Japan and Taiwan. Why direct election failed in Israel
• Abstracts: Are all rights positive? Respect for presons and perfectionist politics. The difference uniforms make: Collective violence in criminal law and war
• Abstracts: War in the Caucasus? Russia and the Caucasus: arc of crisis. Changing guard at the Kremlin

This website is not affiliated with document authors or copyright owners. This page is provided for informational purposes only. Unintentional errors are possible.