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Similar views have been expressed by a sitting
Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States,
Justice Stephen Breyer, in his book, ‘The court and
the world’ as under:
‘The
Founders
constitution
would
of
our
work
nation
better
if
believed
an
the
independent
group of Judges – not the President and the Congress
– could decide whether the President’s action and the
laws enacted by Congress would be consistent with the
constitution.’ Similar consideration worked in the
minds of Founders of the USA in reposing trust upon
the highest court that the people expect Judges to
decide matters independently. So, all the time in
dispensation of justice, the Judges keep in mind the
reason
behind
reservation
of
this
power
upon
the
highest court only. It is only to be exercised by the
Judges of this highest court because they, above all
others,
were
to
be
trusted;
they
could
not
be
expected to do wrong. This is/was the faith that the
constitution had on the Judges of the highest court
of
the
country
with
any
other
group
of
Judges,
administrators, or bureaucrats. The independence of