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Comment: Judicial Activism.

  • UPSC 2006, 2001
  • 20 marks
  • Principal Organs of Government

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The phrase judicial activism was coined by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. in a January 1947 Fortune essay that sorted the Roosevelt Court into "activists" such as Hugo Black and William O. Douglas, who saw law as an instrument of social results, and "champions of self-restraint" such as Felix Frankfurter. The term has never settled into a…

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  • Activism, restraint, overreach
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