In their effort to define the limits of the constitutional authority of the country’s judiciary, lawmakers in Israel are referring to how that subject was addressed by the Federalists and Antifederalists during the ratification debates in the United States.
As the Knesset, Israel’s unicameral legislative body, seeks to refine, and perhaps restore, the original constitutional structure of their country, the names of Publius and Brutus are being invoked by partisans on both sides of the debate on judicial authority to review the acts of the Knesset.