Exam 3 judi

Harrison Tax Act

It was a federal law that regulated and taxed the production, importation, and distribution of opiates and coca products. Although framed as a tax measure, it effectively criminalized non medical use of narcotics, marking the beginning of federal drug prohibition in the United States.

Famous Dissenters

john brown

Civil Disobedience

This author explained that it is necessary to refuse to pay taxes to fund an unjust war. Henry David Thoreau

Jane Crow and the Law summary

That women experience a sort of jim crow law because the system has shut the out and original intention was not to include them. Makes comparisons with voting laws etc

Critical legal theory

The evaluation of American legal ontology and epistemology through a racial and gendered lens. Both broad examination of race and sex/gender in law and society and narrow examination of race and sex/gender in everyday life

Constitutionalist sheriffs – what do they believe?

These shefiffs believe that they have the right to be the sole interpreters of the US Constitution

Positive law

Rules created by man to govern social interactions among subjects

Natural law

Human Behavior derived from nature

Justiciability – what is it?

Whether courts can even hear a case

Political question – what are the components?

Is there a textually demonstrable commitment to other branches, is there unusual need to adhere to a political decision, Is a judicial decision will unduly embarrass government

Amicus curiae briefs – what are they?

Type of case brief is filed to explain to a court how any decision will affect the general public

Original jurisdiction

The district court

Appellate jurisdiction

The circuit court

Scherer et al

The role of interest groups in the judicial confirmation process is to sound the fire alarm of what interest groups want

Confirming federal judges – who is in charge of doing so?

President nominates, senate confirms

Incorporation

Part of the Bill of Rights when the Supreme Court decidies that it is so fundamental to due process that the states must enforce it

What are laws

Rules of conduct promulgated and enforced by the government, set of prescriptions or proscriptions of socially acceptable beahvior, uniformly applied and actively enforced

Bonneau and Bartels article

Engage with the public, train graduate students to ask normative questions, and inferences based on the data should be used to address the normative implications of empirical research