id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-4341 Alexander Bickel - Wikipedia .html text/html 1578 244 63 Alexander Mordecai Bickel (1924–1974) was an American legal scholar and expert on the United States Constitution. Bickel's most distinctive contribution to constitutional law was to stress what he called "the passive virtues" of judicial decision-making – the refusal to decide cases on substantive grounds if narrower grounds exist to decide the case. In his book The Least Dangerous Branch, Bickel coined the term countermajoritarian difficulty to describe his view that judicial review stands in tension with democratic theory. List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States Bickel Dies: Constitutional Law Expert". ^ a b c d Bickel, Alexander Mordecai in the Legal Dictionary of the Free Dictionary Law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with NKC identifiers Wikipedia articles with NTA identifiers Wikipedia articles with PLWABN identifiers Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4341.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4341.txt