POL 101W Lecture Notes - Lower House, Instant-Runoff Voting, Open List

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To enforce the law by: determining guilt or innocence, setting penalties for the guilty. To conduct judicial review of government actors. Nomination by the executive and confirmation by the legislature. Selection by the judiciary, subject to formal approval by the head of states. An institutional relationship between judiciary and other branches of government: politicians must not pressure judges. Judges must not get political: security of tenure, financial security, administrative freedom. A state of mind in which judges remain neutral towards both the parties or issues involved in a case before them. Both judicial impartiality and independence must have limits in practice. Neutrality: choices that benefit both and different political matters. Job acquiry are based on family relations: sometimes unqualified people are hired, or people who are suitable for the job aren"t hired. Unicameral legislature only one chamber, and all members of the legislature belong to and participate in that chapter.

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