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CHAPTER III

The Constitution a Reactionary Document

• Causes of political reaction 27
• The Constitution a product of eighteenth-century 28
• The framers' fear of democracy 29
• Effort to limit the power of the majority 35

CHAPTER IV

The Significance of the Amendment Feature of the Constitution

• Amendment of democratic and undemocratic constitutions 40
• Reasons for making amendment difficult 41
• Patrick Henry's objection to the amendment feature of the Constitution 44
• The amendments to the Constitution 52
• Amendment of the Articles of Confederation 57
• Amendment of the early state constitutions 58
• Amendment in other countries 62

CHAPTER V

The Federal Judiciary

• Relation of the judicial to the other checks 65
• The constitutional status of judges in England 67
• The American was not a copy of the English judicial system 68
• Hamilton's defense of the Federal judiciary 73
• His desire to limit the power of the people 82
• Relation of the judicial to the executive veto 85
• Revival of the judicial veto in the state governments 87
• The judicial veto was not mentioned in the Constitution 90
• The Federalist appointments to the Supreme Bench 94
• Significance of the veto power of the Supreme Court 97
• A monarchical survival 103
• Political and judicial powers 107
• Power to veto laws not judicial 108
• Character of the laws vetoed by the Supreme Court 111
• Decline of the belief in judicial infallibility 113
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