In 1945, with the war against Germany just over and the revelations of the crimes by the Nazis coming to light, the President Truman turned to Justice Robert H. Jackson of the Supreme Court to serve as chief prosecutor for the United States in the then proposed war crimes tribunals against the Nazis. Accepting, Justice Jackson […]
Democracy and Judiciary: at odds over Proposition 8
August 17, 2010 by
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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