Word: braked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trite to point out that when founded the Court was to serve two principal ends: it was to serve as a healthy brake on dangerous democratic tendencies among the people; and it was to fill out the meaning of a Constitution purposely left vague by its writers. The power to declare legislative enactments void may never have been intended for the Court; historians still disagree. Surely the extraordinary veto powers assumed by the 1932-36 body of nine old men was never envisaged...