The Judiciary: Constitutional Design

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Article 3 of the U.S. Constitution is remarkable short. Very little is said about the precise powers of the judiciary - or what the word even really means - other than establishing what it has jurisdiction over. Even that had to be defined in the early years of the court. Early on it was established that the court primarily heard cases involving actual incidences of disputes rather than hypothetical questions. In addition, people bringing cases before the court has to prove that they suffered an actual harm by a law or other government action, sometimes this can be difficult to prove.

Blog posts:

- Standing.
- State Sovereign Immunity.
- Supreme Court.
- The Unwritten Constitution.