67 so that the courts will no longer avoid adjudicating on the legality of a decision merely because it has been debated and approved in Parliament. (R V. Secretary of State Home Department (2001) EWCA Civ 789). Judicial review also goes some way to answering the age-old question of ‘who guards the guards?” by ensuring that public authorities responsible for ensuring accountability of government do so within the boundaries of their own lawful powers. (De quote the Smith’s Judicial Review. P.6-7). In this juncture it is apt to observations of Prof. Schwartz, the Constitution of the United States, Vol –I: “An organic instrument is naught but empty words if it cannot judicial be review constitution morality.....” enforced that more The by makes than mere universal the the Courts. provisions maxims sense of of It of is a political America has come to realize that there can be no constitution without law administered through the Supreme Court. When, in a real controversy, an appeal is made to law, the issue must be left entirely to the judgment

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