can anybody help me to answer how juidicail review challanges democracy?

Question

it is related to political science, how juidicial review challanges democracy in america? can u refer site?

Answer 1

http://www.princeton.edu/~kewhitt/judicial_review.pdf#search='judicial%20review%20versus%20democracy'

That link outlines a course given at Princeton on the subject. It includes a very good bibliography for researching what is essentially a debate.

In a nutshell: Our legislature is elected by the people to represent our collective desires in governing ourselves. Laws that get passed by the legislature, get reviewed by our elected administrative branch of government. Subsequently, laws may then come under judicial; review by judges that get appointed. In the case of the Supreme Court, for life. They interpret the validity of laws versus the Constitution. This practice brings into question the power of the Judiciary versus the power of elected officials. The heart of the issue is that the Judiciary may get appointed during the term of a particular political party more than another, which has the effect of slanting the view of the Court in favor of the platform of that party. For example, some may claim that the Republican Party is trying to get Roe Vs. Wade, the precedent for Abortion rights in the US, overturned by "stacking the Court" with conservative judges.