LAW 5021 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Republican Congress, Appellate Jurisdiction, Life Tenure
23 Feb 2017
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Sovereignty- ability to have power over the people and jurisdiction. Limiting sovereignty limits harm (so that constituents do not wait to vote people out). Articles of confederation- first draft of constitution agreement among states; first attempt at federal government. Explicit statement that states retain sovereignty there was no executive or judiciary branch prescribed. No war with each other, go to war or make peace with another state on your own. Supermajority (9/13 states) to engage in certain actions. What went wrong with the article of confederation: U. s. could not raise revenue to maintain the troops. Congress failed to force the states to settle their debts acquired during the. Articles were like a contract-- each state retained sovereignty, so could absolve from the contract. Structure of government: the court: constitutional interpretation. Modality- the way in which we characterize the form of expression as true. The rules construe the facts stated by the proposition according to the standards of modality.
