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Constitutional conscience the moral dimension of judicial decision

While many recent observers have accused American judgesespecially Supreme Court justicesof being too driven by politics and ideology, others have argued that judges are justified in using their positions to advance personal views. Advocating a different approachone that eschews ideology but still values personal perspectiveH. Jefferson Powell makes a compelling case for the centrality of individual conscience in constitutional decision making. Powell argues that almost every controversial decision has more than one constitutionally defensible resolution. In such cases, he goes on to conte.

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