Our judicial oligarchy
By: Gilbert E. Roe ; [with an introduction by] Robert M. LaFallette.
Publisher: Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Clark, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9781584777724
Subjects: Courts -- United States
Notes: Originally published: New York : B.W. Huebsch, 1912.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Popular distrust of the courts; title: Why the people distrust the courts (a) the courts have usurped the power to declare laws unconstitutional; title: Why the people distrust the courts (b) the courts have seized the power to declare some statutes invalid, because unconstitutional, have come to declare other statutes invalid merely because the judges disapprove the policy of such legislation; title: Why the people distrust the courts (c) the judges by reading their own views into statutes, to the exclusion of the legislative intent, have made the judiciary, in effect, a lawmaking branch of the government; title: Why the people distrust the courts (d) the poor man is not on an equality with the rich one before the courts; title: Dangers of popular distrust of courts; title: Suggestions concerning reforms in the judiciary.