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also very interesting:

> Plenty of legal scholars on both sides of the aisle have, for years, argued that the US goes too far in embracing judicial review; few other countries give their Supreme Courts the power we give ours to strike down democratically enacted laws.

and:

> Even in Canada, the parliament and the provinces retain the power to reverse Supreme Court decisions with supermajority votes.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_33_of_the_Canadian_Cha...




Meanwhile other countries have constitutional courts that must check if a new bill is constitutional before it becomes a law. I tend to prefer this solution most, considering that Congress have passed unconstitutional or borderline unconstitutional laws that haven't yet been verified by the supreme court much more often than the court system has passed undemocratic and anti-people rulings.




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