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+====Legal elites involved in democratic process currently perceive the Court as legitimate |
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+Bartels et al 15, Brandon L. Bartels, Christopher D. Johnston, Alyx Mark George Washington University, “Lawyers’ Perceptions of the U.S. Supreme Court: Is the Court a “Political” Institution?” Law and Society Review, Volume 49, Number 3 (2015), ghs//BZ==== |
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+Moreover, we confront the following empirical foundation: the legal elites studied in this |
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+AND |
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+define their pro- fessional identity and role as participants in the system. |
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+====Departing from stare decisis undermines court legitimacy with elites and eviscerates the social cohesion produced by the constitution |
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+Monaghan, 88 (Henry, professor of law at Columbia University, “STARE DECISIS AND CONSTITUTIONAL ADJUDICATION”, 88 Colum. L. Rev. 723, May, lexis)==== |
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+Precedent is, of course, part of our understanding of what law is. |
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+AND |
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+federal government, if not the viability of the constitutional order itself. 155 |
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+====Loss of legitimacy prevents court from checking military, ensuring nuclear war. |
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+Kellman 89, prof of law @ DePaul, 1989 (Barry Kellman, prof of law @ DePaul, Dec 1989, “JUDICIAL ABDICATION OF MILITARY TORT ACCOUNTABILITY: BUT WHO IS TO GUARD THE GUARDS THEMSELVES?” 1989 Duke L.J. 1597)==== |
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+In this era of thermonuclear weapons, America must uphold its historical commitment to be |
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+recognizable in a millennium ushered in under the mushroom cloud of thermonuclear holocaust. |