Courts, despotism

While Siegfried Haber acted as patriarch and domestic despot, Fritz became the court jester. Stories of him in this role abound. Once, when his sisters were six, four, and two years old, their... 

Indirect despotism can be that of the legislative body itself, of the government, of certain orders of citizenry, of the clergy, of courts and lawyers, of the army, of businessmen and of the mob. We will examine ways of preventing these different forms of despotism. 

If, because of a complicated system of laws and procedures, there are large numbers of people attached to the courts with the exclusive right to act as lawyers and public prosecutors, or if it is difficult to replace such people because they are so well versed in official procedures unfamiliar to other citizens, then the complete suspension of due process, caused by the non-compliance of both courts and lawyers, gives to judicial despotism a particularly dangerous power. 

In countries where customs are mild, governmental or military despotism might not be bloody or cruel judicial despotism is always so because it has at its disposal the full rigour of the law, and because courts are always careful to retain harsh laws even when customs have become milder. 

XI-XV. The Supreme Court is an all-powerful, unelected, and despotic judicial body. There should be some popular check upon the federal judiciary. 

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