HIST 3850 Lecture Notes - United States Attorney General, Grand Jury, Indentured Servant
4 Feb 2014
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The justice system in the usa and canada. Fri sept 27, 2013: north: much harsher environment less dep on slaves, orig relied on indentured labour, labour dep on convicts transported into america for 7-14 yr terms. Constitution agreed that they distrust central poli authorities rebel against it. Maintain control of poli affair of individual states. Ended up retaining ctrl of judiciary and crim law. Fought civil war over each states independent judicial system: sometimes outcomes of cases decided by states or federal. Each state with own crim justice system with rules but must follow basic rights set out in fed constitution. Political system of usa: house of reps 435 rep by pop every 2 years. Ca: same: senate 2 per state regardless of pop, 100 total, every 6 years. Ca: not elected but appointed; regional rep 108 senators of which on: 24. Fri sept 27, 2013 of his party are in majority in house of common.
