Lessons from the past: The importance of judicial independence and the rule of law through the lens of historical and recent constitutional crises in the United States and Poland
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judicial independence, rule of law, U.S. Supreme Court, constitutional crisis, PolandAbstract
In the early days of the United States, the fledging U.S. Supreme Court was still defining and establishing its role in the newly created government. The events leading up to Marbury v. Madison have a number of parallels to the constitutional crisis in Poland beginning in 2015 and involving the Polish Constitutional Tribunal. Both the U.S. constitutional crisis of the early 1800s and its aftermath, as well as the more recent events in Poland illustrate the importance of judicial independence and the rule of law to the proper functioning of strong democratic legal systems.
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