Who Is to Judge?: The Perennial Debate Over Whether to Elect or Appoint America's Judges

by Charles Gardner Geyh

An elected judiciary is virtually unique to the American experience and creates a paradox in a representative democracy. Elected judges take an oath to uphold the law impartially, which calls upon them to swear off the influence of the very constituencies they must cultivate in order to attain and retain judicial office. This paradox has given rise to perennially shrill and unproductive binary arguments over the merits and demerits of elected and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190887141
• ISBN13: 9780190887148
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.7"