{"id":1619,"date":"2005-09-01T11:49:40","date_gmt":"2005-09-01T18:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/the-conservative-defense-of-judicial-activism\/"},"modified":"2005-09-01T11:49:40","modified_gmt":"2005-09-01T18:49:40","slug":"the-conservative-defense-of-judicial-activism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/the-conservative-defense-of-judicial-activism\/","title":{"rendered":"The Conservative Defense of Judicial Activism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"The Value of 'Activism'\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/08\/31\/AR2005083102258.html\">The Value of &#8216;Activism&#8217;<\/a> By George F. Will<\/p>\n<p>Convinced that popular sentiment is with them, some conservatives fan the flames of resentment of judicial review, calling for judicial &#8220;restraint.&#8221; They do so in the name of <strong>dogmatic majoritarianism &#8212; the right of majorities to have their way<\/strong>. There are, however, impeccably conservative reasons for regarding judicial review as a valuable restraint on majorities, and hence for having high regard for some judicial activism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Value of &#8216;Activism&#8217; By George F. Will Convinced that popular sentiment is with them, some conservatives fan the flames of resentment of judicial review, calling for judicial &#8220;restraint.&#8221; They do so in the name of dogmatic majoritarianism &#8212; the right of majorities to have their way. There are, however, impeccably conservative reasons for regarding &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/the-conservative-defense-of-judicial-activism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Conservative Defense of Judicial Activism<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}