ESSAY ON THE LAW NULLIFICATION IN AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONALISM: TENSIONS BETWEEN DEMOCRATIC MONISM AND DUALISM

In this essay, we propose to analyze the relationship between American constitutionalism, the annulment of the law and democracy. Where do these nine (often old and aristocratic) magistrates of the Supreme Court obtain the authority to invalidate the decisions of democratically elected politicians?...

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Autor: Contreras, Claudio Anibal
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM)
Repositorio:Revista Eletrônica do Curso de Direito da UFSM
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/38097
Acceso en línea:http://periodicos.ufsm.br/revistadireito/article/view/38097
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:democracy
constitutionalism
judicial control
judicial power.
democracia
constitucionalismo
control judicial
poder judicial.
controle judicial
poder judiciário.
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Sumario:In this essay, we propose to analyze the relationship between American constitutionalism, the annulment of the law and democracy. Where do these nine (often old and aristocratic) magistrates of the Supreme Court obtain the authority to invalidate the decisions of democratically elected politicians? How does it not unmask a political system that only leads, of course, to a government of judges? Although the political problems arising from the control of constitutionality are thematizing in the local constitutional debate, we will try to contribute in this essay some ideas born of the current American debate that overlap in the Latin American context and that contribute to enrich it.