POLS 1337 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: United States District Court, Fox News Sunday, William Marbury
4 Oct 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Review sheet has 80-85% of material that will be on the exam. There will be no questions specifically from the book. The legal terms that are listed are the only ones he will question us on not definitions but understanding what the terms are and entail. Only 50 minutes for the exam backtracking is not allowed. Available starting saturday at 0700 until monday at 2355. ** watched 20 minutes of supreme court justice scalia sits down with chris wallace on fox news. Sunday video. foxnews. com** it is testable should make a point to watch. Originalism - find out what the statutes meant during the time that they were written: ie. give the constitution the meaning that it had during the context of its time. Textualism taking the statute as it is written only, not taking into account anything else (desired outcomes, etc) Purposivism most popular form of interpretation; consulting the purpose of the statute and determining what the writers had intended.
