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judicial activism

judicial activism

 
pronunciation:
ju dI shl aek tihv ih zm
part of speech: noun
definition: judicial practice based on the belief that courts may play a role in the creation of new policy by broadly interpreting and reinterpreting the language of the Constitution and other laws when doing so best enables the service of justice.