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How Courts Took Power Without a Vote
By Cecil Hawthorne

In When Justice Governs, author and essayist Cecil Hawthorne delivers a sharp, urgent analysis of a growing global phenomenon: the silent rise of judicial power. Through clear argumentation and historical insight, he investigates how courts   institutions that were once guardians of the law   have increasingly become actors of political decision-making.

From the United States to Europe and beyond, this book shows how unelected judges now settle society’s most divisive questions   on rights, freedoms, leadership, and national identity. Without votes or campaigns, they shape nations. Hawthorne asks: Is this still justice, or is it governance by another name?

“Justice no longer only interprets power   it exercises it.”