American courts always helped govern and their governing role has grown over time

Evidence

Rather than limiting the text to coverage of the U.S. Supreme Court, G. Alan Tarr examines the judiciary as the third branch of government, and weaves four major premises throughout the text: 1) Courts in the United States have always played an important role in governing and their role has increased in recent decades; 2) Judicial policymaking is a distinctive activity; 3) Courts make policy in a variety of ways; and 4) Courts may be the objects of public policy, as well as creators. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 9

Categorization

• DEFINE: This frames the four premises organizing the entire judicial-politics course text.
• XREF: Organizing framework for a judicial process course, complementing the other assigned textbook. — connects to: American courts have grown in their role governing the nation. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 90; American courts inherited common-law rulemaking and thus judges make law — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 138; American courts are enmeshed in policymaking through their duty to interpret law — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 213 (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• American courts are enmeshed in policymaking through their duty to interpret law #expands (0.92) — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 213
• American courts inherited common-law rulemaking and thus judges make law #expands (0.90) — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 138
• The American legal system is common law yet distinctive for judicial policymaking #corroborates (0.90) — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 213
• American judges reshaped inherited common law to fit democracy and industrialization #exemplifies (0.85) — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 139
• State courts make constitutional and common-law policy in distinct doctrinal domains #expands (0.85) — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 3267
• Legislatures expanded into fields courts once exclusively governed #complicates (0.85) — Lawrence M. Friedman and Grant M. Hayden, American Law, 455
• Nineteenth-century judges actively reshaped common law to fit American conditions. #exemplifies (0.85) — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 2837
• Courts do not simply dominate American policymaking. #qualifies (0.80) — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 191
• State governments shifted power from legislatures to executives and courts over time #corroborates (0.80) — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 668
• Courts expand constitutional rights by redefining the legal standard they rest on. #exemplifies (0.78) — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 2533