POL 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: List Of Amendments To The United States Constitution, State Terrorism
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For the syllabus of the case you are writing your paper on, there is no knowledge of who the author is. The syllabus is a dummy"s guide to the opinion. In first paragraph there is a fact pattern which tells what the holding and argument are. Have each section of the syllabus printed and separated. Majority opinion becomes the law of the united states. The majority opinion becomes its own document, meaning that the first page is page one, instead of the page number listed. To find out when opinion was released, scroll to majority opinion page, and look at the date listed. If there are 8 members, there needs to be 5 members who agree in order to make the majority opinion win. Federalism is when we have a national government, and 50 state governments. Both have separate powers and both have shared powers. They exercise both types of powers through law.