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Judicial Branch
Coverage of Judicial Branch in the Nexus archive.
- America at 250: why the Constitution was built to restrain government, not celebrate majority rule
The U.S. Constitution was designed to limit government power and protect individual rights, not to establish majority rule. The Founding Fathers structured it with checks and balances across three branches and avoided the term 'democracy' due to concerns about tyranny of the majority.
- Does Trump have a right to expect ‘his’ judges to side with him?
The article critiques Trump's expectation that his appointed judges will align with his political views, highlighting concerns about judicial independence. It implies the judicial branch's independence is compromised by such expectations.