In search of a democratic justice-what courts should not do: Argentina, 1983-2002

Democratization and the Judiciary: The Accountability Function of Courts in New Democracies

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 132-143

  Gargarella, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD TORCUATO DI TELLA   (Argentina)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203485408     Document Type: Chapter

References (27)

1. In stating this, I am basically following James Madison's opinion in The Federalist Paper No. 51 (1787).
2. See, for example, Owen Fiss, 'Groups and the Equal Protection Clause', Philosophy and Public Affairs, Vol.5, No.2 (1976), pp.107-77.
3. For example, Bruce Ackerman, We the People: Foundation (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991).
4. John Ely, Democracy and Distrust (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1980).
5. Ronald Dworkin, Taking Rights Seriously (London: Duckworth, 1977);
6. idem, Freedom's Law: The Moral Reading of the American Constitution (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996).
7. Cass Sunstein, 'Against Positive Rights', in A.Sajo and K.Lauer (eds), Western-Rights: Post-Communist Applications, (Dordrecht: Kluwer Law International, 1996).
8. G.Stone, L.Seidman, C.Sunstein and M.Tushnet, Constitutional Law (New York: Aspen, 2001).
9. Victor Ferreres Comella, Justicia constitucional y democracia (Madrid: Centro de Estudios Constitucionales, 1997).
10. William Eskrdige, 'Dynamic Statutory Interpretation', University of Pennsylvania Law Review Vol.135 (1987) pp.1479-1556
11. Robert Bork, The Tempting of America (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990);
12. Antonin Scalia, A Matter of Interpretation (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997).
13. Ronald Dworkin, Law's Empire (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1986).
14. The Federalist Paper No. 78, in The Federalist Papers (New York: Mentor Books, 1961), p.469.
15. The Federalist Papers (note 15), p.316 (emphasis added).
16. Alexander Bickel, The Least Dangerous Branch (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1962);
17. also Bruce Ackerman, 'Discovering the Constitution. The Economy of Virtue', The Yale Law Journal, Vol.93 (1984), pp. 1013-71.
18. Jürgen Habermas, 'Further Reflections on the Public Sphere', in C.Calhoun (ed), Habermas and the Public Sphere (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1992).
19. See, for example, Judge Petracchi's opinion in Ponzetti de Balbin, c/Editorial Atlántida (CSJN, 11/12/84).
20. CSJN Fallos, 400:22. See also Ferrer, CSJN, 10 July 1990.
21. Fallos 321:2848 (1998); see also Espinosa, Fallos 317:1448 (1994).
22. See also his decision in Menem, 2001, M. 368. XXXIV, where the court condemned Editorial Perfil for publishing some truthful information about the president having a child out of wedlock.
23. Jonathan Miler, 'Evaluating the Argentine Supreme Court under Presidents Alfonsín and Menem (1983-1999)', Southwestern Journal of Law and Trade in the Americas, Vol.7, No.2 (2000), pp.369-433.
24. It is possible to find similar problems in Aerolineas Argentinas (313 Fallos 863, 1990), which indicates more careful scrutiny should also have been given to the substantial programme of privatization process that was then starting.
25. Carlos Nino, Fundamentos de Derecho Constitutional (Buenos Aires: Astrea, 1993), p.474.
26. Would things improve, however, if judges were more closely connected with the people at large? The answer to this question depends, among other things, on the way in which we re-build the relationship between judges and the people. There is certainly scope for many reasonable changes to be made, which can be easily justified. See, for example, Mark Tushnet, Taking the Constitution Away from the Court (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999) and Jeremy Waldron, Law and Disagreement, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001).
27. John Rawls, Political Liberalism (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991).