<span>The Supreme Court is most likely to be accused of judicial activism in cases involving: protection of individual rights.
Writing for the conservative group, <em>The Heritage Foundation</em>, Elizabeth Slattery defines judicial activism as "w</span><span>hen judges fail to apply the Constitution or laws impartially according to their original public meaning, regardless of the outcome, or do not follow binding precedent of a higher court and instead decide the case based on personal preference."
Cases involving individual rights are likely to elicit charges of judicial activism because the Constitution does not spell out each and every sort of right citizens may have. New questions come up that were not considered or specified at the time the Constitution was written. For instance, <em>Roe v. Wade </em>(1973) addressed the question of abortion and an individual's right to privacy. <em>Obergefell v. Hodges </em>(2015) addressed the legality of same-sex marriage. Both are cases of individual rights, where the Constitution did not give direct instruction on the issues at stake. The decisions on those issues, to allow abortion and to allow same-sex marriage, both are criticized by conservatives as instances of judicial activism.</span>
The answer is strong governments in towns and villages, and a relatively weak government.
Strengthened the legal protections for slavery
Woodrow Wilson was one of the main influences in the ending of World War I. He worked very close with the leaders of France and Great Britain in order to develop the Treaty of Versailles. In this treaty, the League of Nations was created. This idea, developed by Wilson, was supposed to be a collection of countries who worked together to keep international peace.
Even though Wilson supported it, the US Congress did not. This effort to not join the League of Nations was headed by Henry Cabot Lodge. Lodge felt that the US should avoid constant foreign entanglement. Along with this, Lodge worried that joining this organization would cause the US to be dragged into more wars in the future.