[POLS 4050] - Midterm Exam Guide - Ultimate 26 pages long Study Guide!
6 Feb 2017
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Would this be in violation of the constitution. Thursday january 19th, 2017: move away from religious law to the idea of basic rights, need to enshrine these rights in a constitution so that they are protected. Research paper: deductive scientific method, hypothesis 1. A hypothesis is an assumption; theories are broad generalizations. Making policy, making law: an interbranch perspective is judicial. Policymaking countermajoritarian: when striking down federal and state legislation, the supreme court is often described as. In this chapter, i argue that judicial invalidation of statutes is often tied to majoritarian social and political forces. The non-majoritarian difficulty: when striking down legislation, the supreme court almost always takes its cues from elected officials, the public, or elites. In the next section of this chapter, i will explain how court decision making is inextricably linked to social and political forces.
