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Can build on precedent, provide your definition of judicial activism.

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Judicial activism is the (assertion or somtimes the unjustified assertion) of the power of judicial review to set aside government acts. Judicial restraint is the refusal to strike down such acts, leaving the issue to ordinary politics
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