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dc.contributor.authorCorrea, Rodrigo
dc.date2021-11-25T13:36:34.000
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-26T12:31:25Z
dc.date.available2021-11-26T12:31:25Z
dc.date.issued2004-01-01T00:00:00-08:00
dc.identifieryls_sela/37
dc.identifier.contextkey3111240
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13051/17533
dc.description.abstractJudges exercise public power. The ideal of democracy demands that every exercise of public power should express the will of the people. The popular or general will does not exist, however, as a brute fact, given that the people or the nation can only be conceived as a unity in normative, not natural terms. In other words, the people or the nation has no will because it is not a subject with mental states. The popular or general will must therefore be attributed normatively to a people or nation, itself also a normative construct. This means that, in principle, every exercise of public power, not only judicial power, is problematic from the point of view of democracy. Taken to the extreme, one might even put in doubt whether the legislative powers of our states live up to the ideal of democracy.
dc.subjectIndependent judiciary
dc.subjectjudicial branch
dc.subjectFrench Revolution
dc.subjectformalism
dc.subjectjurisprudence of rights
dc.titleTHE JUDICIARY AND DEMOCRACY: TO THE RESCUE OF THE SPIRIT OF THE SPIRIT
dc.source.journaltitleSELA (Seminario en Latinoamérica de Teoría Constitucional y Política) Papers
refterms.dateFOA2021-11-26T12:31:26Z
dc.identifier.legacycoverpagehttps://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/yls_sela/37
dc.identifier.legacyfulltexthttps://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1036&context=yls_sela&unstamped=1


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