01:790:106 Lecture 2: Law & Politics
29 Jan 2019
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Law: a set of rules made and enforced by government. Types of us laws (lecture 2: statutory law: made by legislative dues, administrative law: made by administrative agencies, such as health and human services, common law: made by judges (precedents, constitutional law. Differences between how courts and legislatures make law: Courts are limited by the fact of the dispute: compare brown v. board of. Standing to sue: you must be affected directly by a dispute. Articles of confederation written in 1777 by the continental congress. Group of thousands of farmers tried to storm the federal arsenal in western. Massachusetts in february 1787 to shut down the courts. Banks were seeking to foreclose on debt ridden farms. Constitutional convention met in philadelphia in summer of 1787. Much of our information comes from the federalist papers, written by alexander. Hamilton, james madison and john jay as series of newspaper articles in new.
