In recent years, antidemocratic behavior has rippled across the nation. Lame-duck state legislatures have stripped popularly elected governors of their powers; extreme partisan gerrymanders warped representative institutions; officials nullified adopted initiatives. The federal Constitution offers few resources to address these problems, and ballot-box solutions cannot work when actions undermi...

The concept of majority rule and respect for minority rights is demonstrated in several constitutions the world. Oppression by barred articles these respective constitutions. Today, democracy mostly a method government people that ruled people. issue at center civic rights. Minority protection, thus, operates on hypothesis religious, cultural, linguistic affiliations are essential features very...

The problem of unenumerated constitutional rights in the United States and Canada is examined in order to seek a true and objective basis upon which judicial opinions may elaborate such privileges and immunities. The authentic root principles of fundamental law in both countries are traced to natural law as explained by Aquinas, Blackstone, Jefferson and other such legal philosophers. From this...