 The counter-majoritarian difficulty is often raised in discussions of United States constitutional law; particularly in discussing the powers of the three branches of the Federal government of the United States.Alexander Bickel, a law professor at Yale Law School, coined the term "counter-majoritarian difficulty" in his 1962 book, "The Least Dangerous Branch".He used the term to describe the argument that judicial review is illegitimate because it allows unelected judges to overrule the lawmaking of elected representatives, thus undermining the will of the majority.