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> The Supreme Court is explicitly not supposed to represent the will of the people.

Source ? Asking as a non American

It seems to me there are multiple understanding of the role of scotus in general and the inoperative rules of the constitution. "Explicitly not supposed to represent the will of the people" seems to be one perspective but not the only one.

Every constitutional democraty will have a tension between the constitutional and democratic part. And that tension will be felt in all of its institutiona






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