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What Are Bills Of Rights Antithetical To Democracy?
A third reason why the argument that bills of rights are antithetical to democracy deserves critical scrutiny is that it has been developed in relation to constitutional bills of rights that allow the judiciary to invalidate legislation and does not readily translate to the context of statutory bills of rights. As I have noted above, I do not accept the distinction that is drawn (but rarely justified) by sceptics between judicial review on non-rights-based constitutional interpretation and judicial review under a bill of rights. But, conceding it for the sake of argument, the democracy objection to bills of rights cannot exist in the same form in the context of legislative bills of rights.
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