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Article: Political responses to Supreme Court decisions. (Twenty-Seventh Annual National Federalist Society Student Symposium)
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- Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy
- Article date:
- January 1, 2009
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I. REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY AT THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION
Direct democracy, as Professor Clark has pointed out, is not necessarily the people talking. (1) Quite appropriately, he has focused on the ways in which representative democracy--the republican form of democracy--works. (2) This Essay will make a separate point, which ties in with the Framers' original intent in choosing republicanism over direct democracy. If one refers to the notes of the debates at the Constitutional Convention--as opposed to relying solely on the Federalist Papers, which were, after all, in significant part propaganda to obtain ratification--one discovers that when the Framers ...