POLS 1200- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 31 pages long!)

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Vancouver; not buying oil from places with ties to. Many ways people visualize law as being political. Nature of law and it"s relationship to politics . Interpretation is up to individuals - the way it is implemented; can be up to the discretion of law official. People argue that politics is completely unrelated to law. Politics: study of influence and the influential - philosophy of politics justifies preferences. The adversary system: refers to a procedural system in which the parties (not the judges) have the primary responsibility for defining the issues in a dispute and for carrying the dispute forward through the system. (neil brooks, 1976) Lawyers were not permitted in trials; would advise their clients to remain silent (would never find out the truth) lawyers viewed as the problem; judges were the answers (1600s-1700s) 1800s there were 220 crimes that were punishable by death; the death penalty is discressionary - turning to lawyers to protect these people.

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