[Ads-l] "Judicial Activism" and "Judicial Activist" Not in OED

[Shapiro, Fred]

"Judicial activism" and "judicial activist" are important terms in U.S. law and politics but are not in the OED.  Below are the earliest uses I have found for these terms:

1946 Buffalo Evening News​ 26 Dec. 14/1 (Newspapers.com)  The real split, he [Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.] says, is between "judicial activists" who would employ the judicial power affirmatively for their own conception of the social good, and the "champions of self-restraint."

1947 Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. in Fortune​ Jan. 77  Robert Jackson's ... Book, The Struggle for Judicial Supremacy​, sets forth the argument on the historical record against judicial activism.

Fred Shapiro

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