Conclusion
597
that were once considered to be within the exclusive domain of the State
judiciaries. Both Federal and State courts are immensely overburdened
by their case loads, principally because they have more laws to interpret.
More judges are also willing to take cases that augment the judicial power.
Months, often years, go by before cases are settled; and truly justice delayed is justice denied.
Americans, it is feared, have become a litigious people, always filing
lawsuits—many of them seeking to extract material advantages from
wealthy individuals and corporations. Judges are made arrogant by the
power that they have themselves amassed or has been thrust into their
hands by legislatures. Some, instead of exercising self-restraint and confining their duties to the interpretation of the law, stretch the meaning of
words in order to reach desired results, becoming law- and policy-makers.
And jurisprudence—the philosophy and history of law—is neglected