PS 3150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Perjury, Establishment Clause, Infant Mortality

• School: App State
• Department: Political Science
• Course: PS 3150
• Professor: Ellen Meredith Key

Document Summary

Mootness- when a case has been settled or resolved by the time it reaches the case. Ripeness- an unripe case gets to the court before an actual conflict occurs. The supreme court wants to hear ripe cases. Percolation- let the issue be heard at lower courts if the conflict has occurred but the case is still unripe. Political questions- questions that should be handled by the legislative or executive branch rather than the judiciary according to the constitution. Main government is accused of not honoring the guarantee clause. Question of reapportionment (how many representatives a state has to draw district lines) Argued that states drew their districts in a way that violated the. Urban votes were diluted and rural votes were enhanced because of how district lines were drawn. Argue that the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment was violated. Read page 98 middle left details political questions. A political case does not equate to a political question.