POLI 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Second Amendment To The United States Constitution, 3 Women, Judicial Activism

• School: University of Iowa
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 1100
• Professor: Osborn

Document Summary

Not a lot written about the supreme court in the constitution. Had to establish what they were going to do. U. s. uses common law system - courts play the role of what"s right & what"s wrong. Marshall says that he shouldn"t make the decision. Established judicial review - job of supreme court to decide what"s constitutional & what"s not********** Lucky president gets to nominate 2 or 3 (big deal!!!) Judges - people who operate in the other 2 levels of court. Merit - expert, went to top law school or taught at law school. Judicial ideology (not liberal or conservative) - how nominees see the. Constitution sense (has to be written in the constitution)********** Judicial interpretivists - believe that the constitution changes over time. & it has to be interpreted over time********** 2nd amendment, strict constructionists believe that it doesn"t exist anymore, judicial interpretivists believe that we can own guns today.