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Robert A. Dahl, Ian ´ Antonio Cheibub (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2003 [1957]), Dahl Shapiro, and Jose did much to spur empirical work on such issues in the United States context by showing that in fact the Supreme Court had not historically lived up to the ‘‘standard view’’ of it as a bulwark against majoritarian tyranny by protecting the right of majorities. In fact, according to Dahl, as one policy initiating institution among others in the government, and where its justices are members of the political elite and the currently empowered national governing coalition, the Supreme Court has been largely irrelevant to whether or not legislative majorities have enacted policy: ‘‘lawmaking majorities generally have had their way,’’ 248.
Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2004], 170). Discussion of other ways of measuring instances of judicial review, with figures including constitutional nullification of state laws and local ordinances, can be found at footnote 55 of Chapter 8. One method yields a measure of the yearly rate of all statutory nullifications as a percentage of the number of cases decided with full, signed opinions. The contemporary percentage here is just above 10 percent of Supreme Court cases per year. As is evident by my omission, in the previous list of five functions, of the United States Supreme Court’s powers concerning international and transnational law and issues.
Thus, although the deliberative democratic arguments for and against judicial review considered later reject, to varying degrees, the central elements of the majoritarian democracy–minoritarian constitutionalism conception, they can still be usefully characterized in terms of how they approach the questions of political legitimacy and political process. 31 Deliberative Democracy and Institutions of Judicial Review 32 a. judicial review as substantially legitimate protection of minority rights 1.