Second is a recognition of the limits of the judicial role, an understanding that a judge's job is to interpret, not make law, to approach decisions without any particular ideology or agenda, but rather a commitment to impartial justice, a respect for precedent, and a determination to faithfully apply the law to the facts at hand.

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Subsequently in the early 1990s the European Union, which included the Coal and Steel and Economic Communities, was established in recognition that the modest goals of the 1950s were expanding to include issues such as police and judicial policy as well as foreign and security policy.

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