ESSAY ON THE LAW NULLIFICATION IN AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONALISM: TENSIONS BETWEEN DEMOCRATIC MONISM AND DUALISM
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democracy, constitutionalism, judicial control, judicial power.Abstract
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.
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