recall of judicial decisions
- recall of judicial decisions
- Recall Re*call", n.
1. A calling back; a revocation.
[1913 Webster]
'T is done, and since 't is done, 't is past recall.
--Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Mil.) A call on the trumpet, bugle, or drum, by which
soldiers are recalled from duty, labor, etc. --Wilhelm.
[1913 Webster]
3. (Political Science)
(a) The right or procedure by which a public official,
commonly a legislative or executive official, may be
removed from office, before the end of his term of
office, by a vote of the people to be taken on the
filing of a petition signed by a required number or
percentage of qualified voters.
(b) Short for
{recall of judicial decisions}, the right or procedure by
which the decision of a court may be directly reversed or
annulled by popular vote, as was advocated, in 1912, in
the platform of the Progressive party for certain cases
involving the police power of the state.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
2000.
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