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Judicial Discontents in Democracy: Interrogating the Contradictions

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  • Adeline Nnenna Idike

    (Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Nigeria)

  • Ikechukwu Ogoeze

    (Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Nigeria)

  • Nwachukwu, K. C

    (Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Nigeria)

  • Remi Chukwudi Okeke

    (Madonna University, Okija, Anambra State, Nigeria)

Abstract

The French judge and political philosopher, Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu, otherwise, simply known as Montesquieu, propounded the theory of separation of powers, currently implemented in many democracies across the world. Implicit in the terminology of separation of powers, is the desire for a seamless democracy or the type of democracy with minimal national bitterness. None of the three arms of government was ever envisaged to be a possible source of discontent in democracy. What then is to be done when one of these tripartite coequals becomes the source of discontent in an assumed democratic polity? This paper interrogates the embedded issues.

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  • Adeline Nnenna Idike & Ikechukwu Ogoeze & Nwachukwu, K. C & Remi Chukwudi Okeke, 2020. "Judicial Discontents in Democracy: Interrogating the Contradictions," Proceedings of the 16th International RAIS Conference, March 30-31, 2020 007ani, Research Association for Interdisciplinary Studies.
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    1. Adetoro Rasheed Adenrele & Omiyefa Muraina Olugbenga, 2014. "Challenges of Human Rights Abuses in Nigerian Democratic Governance – Which Way Forward ?," Journal of Social Economics Research, Conscientia Beam, vol. 1(5), pages 87-96.
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