PSCI 1101 Study Guide - Constitutional Law
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Institutions that sit as neutral third parties to resolve conflicts according to law. A legal system based on a detailed comprehensive legal code, usually created by the legislature. A legal system based on the accumulated rulings of judges over time, applied uniformly judge made law; preserving the decisions that were made in the past. A previous decision or ruling that, in common law tradition, is binding. Trial procedures designed to resolve conflict through the clash of opposing sides, moderated by a neutral, passive judge who applies the law. Designed to determine whether a particular accused person is guilty. Trial procedures designed to determine the truth through the intervention of an active judge who seeks evidence and questions witnesses. Laws whose content, or substance, define what we can or cannot do. Laws that establish how laws are applied and enforced how legal proceeding take place; procedures that are used to conduct the law.
