cance in the America
political system. For it is also a political institution, an institution, that
is to say, for arriving at decisions on controversial questions of national
policy." (Dahl, Role of the Supreme Court Symposium, pg.279) The point here is
that proportionately, the Judiciary yields as much power and policy making
capabilities as any of the other two branches of government, and that the
decisions made by the Supreme Court are in fact equal in stature to Congress
What Dahl is basically trying to say is that the evolution of the
Supreme Court has made it very involved in decisions concerning important policy
issues of the American political system. When it renders a decision on these
policy issues, it is in fact changing or creating new policy itself. Now to say
that the Supreme Court is only the highest legal institution of the United
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