POLS 314 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Usa Today, Embezzlement, Small Claims Court
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Historical context: some of the founders wanted a centralized federal court system. Each colony in early northern america, wanted own court system: some wanted a decentralized state-based system, the outcome: compromise with both, articles of confederation with scrapped no federal, centralized judiciary. Aoc taxed one another and feuded with one another, no trust btw states: founders left structure to congress. Federalist(liberals): wanted to create a strong centralized judicial government. Anti-federalists(republicans): decentralized government, many didn"t want federal judiciary, wanted to be self governing. Constitution says that states with have their own judicial systems and there will be a federal supreme court. In first congress, the federal legislature created the federal court system which led to judiciary act of 1789: judiciary act of 1789. Triumph for anti-federalists, federal courts deal with certain cases, and state courts deal with entirely different cases. Division of labor: federal courts: rules of constitutionality of state and federal laws.
