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Democracy and Judiciary: at odds over Proposition 8

August 17, 2010 by Daniel Burton

Image by riacale via Flickr One of the interesting points about American government is the balance in the federal constitution between democratic and non-democratic institutions. It is, as was intended, a series of checks and balances on the power of too much democracy. The Congress, the most democratic of the countries institutions at the federal […]

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