Over a century ago the great American jurist James Bradley Thayer warned against handing social policy decision-making over to the lawyerly caste from which unelected top judges are chosen. Thayer said this ‘dwarves the political capacity of the people and deadens its sense of moral responsibility’. That was back in 1901.
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