Exporting U.S. Counter-Interpretation: Redeeming Constitutional Supremacy in the U.K.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
To solve the democratic deficit of U.S. style judicial review, the New Commonwealth Model of Judicial Review (NCM) gives legislatures the “final word” on law by empowering them to override Supreme Court decisions. This model was recently implemented in the United Kingdom, Canada, and New Zealand. I argue that the United Kingdom has failed and the United States has succeeded in the democratization of the interpretation of rights because the U.K.’s Human Rights Act has intermediate status while the U.S. Constitution is supreme law. Constitutional supremacy is the necessary condition for the democratization of rights, which I call “counter-interpretation.” Counter-interpretation occurs when the legislature interprets the constitution independently of and sometimes in conflict with the Supreme Court. I illustrate the link between “counter-interpretation” and constitutional supremacy in the homeland of parliamentary sovereignty, the United Kingdom. I show how during a brief period of de facto constitutional supremacy in the United Kingdom, politicians independently and in opposition to the courts interpreted the meaning of the controversial “right to family life.” I conclude by arguing that the United Kingdom should abandon parliamentary sovereignty, that the United States is a viable model for countries seeking to produce counter-interpretation, and I put forth a new more democratic model of judicial review.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.015 | 0.057 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.013 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.013 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".