judicial tyranny

jean-christophe helary helary at niji.or.jp
Wed May 16 08:29:20 PDT 2001


<Doug Henwood>-----
> Nathan Newman wrote:
>
> >So much for federalism.
>
> So much for democracy. This is the price you pay for letting courts
> have enormous power to overturn laws on "constitutional" grounds.
>
> Doug

-----</Doug Henwood>

france has a constitutional court that checks all the laws and i get the feeling we get slightly more democracy than you. maybe it is more that just courts ? maybe it's about them not being independant ?

does nathan have an opinion on the french way of doing ?

jc helary



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