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The countermajoritarian activism of the post-New Deal Supreme Court is assessed. A comparison of the Court's decisions & prevailing PO (Smith, A., A Compendium of Trends on General Social Survey Questions, Chicago: NORC, 1982; General Social Surveys 1972-1980: Cumulative Codebook, Chicago: NORC, 1980; & SRC-CPR American National Election Studies, Ann Arbor: ICPSR, 1960-1980) suggests that the Court's decisions overturning legislation &/or protecting minority rights were often supported by the distribution or trend of nationwide PO. Further, when such support was lacking, the Court seemed reluctant to act. The post-New Deal Supreme Court is concluded to act in a more majoritarian fashion than previously supposed. 3 Figures, 26 References. Modified HA

Relationship between nationwide public opinion and Supreme Court decisions in state and local cases; includes issues of abortion, school desegregation, interracial marriage, school prayer, and capital punishment.

Opinion data gathered from nationwide surveys on attitudinal tolerance, conducted in 1986 in Britain, and in 1978 and 1987 in the US.

Tolerance is an important concept in democratic theory and a recurring issue in British history. With rare exceptions, however, conclusions about tolerance in Britain have been based on impressionistic rather than empirical evidence. Only a few research studies have addressed the subject of tolerance in Britain, and none has collected nationwide data on attitudinal tolerance among the British.This Note examines patterns of attitudinal tolerance in Britain and speculates about the impact of those patterns on the status of political freedom in Britain. The analysis is based on recently collected survey data on attitudinal tolerance among members of the public and Members of Parliament in Britain.