POL 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Foreign Official
14 Dec 2016
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What is judiciary: interpret the law, judges have to take general law and use it for a specific case, discretionary power. Government wrote law, police says there is a violation. Make it right (pay 2424 and fulfil contract) Private law vs. public law: private law (not a government law, contract law: private contract. Only applies to people that signed the document: example: someone didn"t get enough money for the rent, tort law: negligence. Understood level of common understanding not fulfilled: example: doctor cuts leg off by accident, public law (government law, government is doing something unconstitutional. Whether or not government is following its own rules: example: roe v. wade: texas shouldn"t be able to control my abortion. Vice versa: when the person you are charging with the case is changed. If you violated a law written by a state, you will be here. If you violated a law written by the national gov, you will be here.
