In most systems, however, legislatures also have other tasks, such as selection and criticism of the government, supervision of administration, appropriation of funds, ratification of treaties, impeachment of executive and judicial officials, acceptance or refusal of executive nominations, determination of election procedures, and public hearings on petitions.
In particular, they should perhaps study the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials to learn how the Nazis institutionalized torture as part of the judicial system, acceptance of torture being just one part of an institutional mindset that led to much greater horrors.
More important, acceptance of judicial supremacy left protecting judicial authority (by not acting so frequently or aggressively as to produce a political backlash) as the only justification for restraint a justification that, ironically, grows weaker in direct proportion to supremacy's acceptance.
The American people signaled their acceptance of judicial review as the proper way to alter the meaning of the Constitution, but only so long as the justices' decisions remained within the mainstream of popular understanding".
In an attempt to eliminate bribery and favouritism, the code provided salaries for officials in judicial service and forbade the acceptance of gifts.
Biracial accommodation has survived -- very alive if not well -- the lingering stench of racism, civil rights litigation, judicial scrutiny, fiscal concerns, and begrudged acceptance among blacks and whites.
Immediately after a decision, he said, the mere fact of judicial endorsement of a position increases public acceptance slightly.
A summary of those program features that can be identified as being related to program acceptance both within and across judicial districts.
The ending of segregation in the military and in education, the granting of women's right to vote, the removal of anti-miscegenation laws all occurred by judicial or government action before broad societal acceptance.
The Judiciary Committee needs to act promptly on the nomination of candidates who have won acceptance as moderates and people of judicial stature and temperament.
