[lit-ideas] Re: Feeling Safe isn't safe

  • From: "Judith Evans" <judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 19:01:22 +0100

LH> of the best known guards was a built in balance of powers

that doesn't really exist now (according to, e.g., Robert Dahl:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Dahl

http://www.yale.edu/polisci/dahl/index.htm )


>Perhaps at the present time one can most clearly
> see the Judicial branch usurping some of the Legislative powers

a stench has emanated from the Court since Bush v Gore, but the
"judicial activism" thing is a right-wing mantra

> Our economy is doing well.  European economies are not doing
quite so well

:)

(Please try to trim posts.  Thank you.)

Judy Evans, Cardiff, UK
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