CANNILLA, ANA    SUTEU, SILVIA. Citizenship and Justice. Judicial Review in Deliberative Democracy. []. , spe55, pp.191-205.   09--2023. ISSN 0122-9893.  https://doi.org/10.18601/01229893.n55.11.

In this article we criticise the defence of judicial review offered by Cristina Lafont in her book Democracy without Shortcuts. On one side, we analyse the case law of the Supreme Court of the United States to show that it does not work as Lafont's thesis assumes. On another side, we develop two normative critics and one methodological. In regard to the normative, we first problematise the linkage of ideas of self-government and democracy with the issue of allegiance and agreement to the law and we then critically examine the idea of political equality that underpins Lafont's proposal. Finally, we suggest engaging in discussions on institutional design of judicial review to explore the deliberative potential of alternative mechanisms to strong judicial review of legislation.

: Deliberative democracy; judicial review; political obligations; political equality; institutional design; SCOTUS.

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