Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The rule of the judges over the people of Israel.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The rule of the judges over Israel.
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- noun
Rule byjudges .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Vinson Court was opposed to segregation and wanted to rule against it in 1952 but would not because the justices understood that it would usher in kritarchy.
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As you were born into kritarchy, their concerns may be a mystery to you.
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Justice Stanley Reed, who was a party to the Brown decision, explicitly referred to it as “kritarchy.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Another Paul Craig Roberts response: 2004
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But Brown . . . ushered in kritarchy — government by judges....
The Volokh Conspiracy » Paul Craig Roberts on racial preferences: 2004
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For all that any one knew the gentleman from Pulaski might be primed with a speech on the chinch bug or the Jewish kritarchy; a man with a sheet of paper in his hand was
A Hoosier Chronicle Meredith Nicholson 1906
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Simply abdicating all constitutional understanding to the courts is a failure of duty and is particularly alarming to conservatives who fear kritarchy.
De Novo PG 2010
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Board of Education, which held that “separate but equal” programs were unconstitutional, “ushered in kritarchy — government by judges,” while Harlan’s dissent in Plessy v.
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Aryeh Tuchman, associate director of the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism, said that “kritarchy” had long been used to describe “rule by judges.”
Justice Department Newsletter Included Extremist Blog Post By 2019
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