This study attempts to explain why the Supreme Court responds to public mood by analyzing individual justice liberalism and comparing it to public liberalism between the years of1970 and 2001. Three theories suggesting why the Court may respond to public opinion are discussed, including the replacement, political adjustment, and the attitude change hypotheses. The method of using Court reversal...

Public opinion monitoring system takes advantage of the search engine technology and the network information mining technology, through the contents of the Web page such as automatic acquisition and processing, sensitive word filtration, intelligent clustering and classification, topic detection, thematic focus, statistical analysis. For these contents, every unit needs to be under the network ...