POLI 212 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Socalled, Swiss Democrats, Enel
29 Mar 2017
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The countries in continental europe: code law civil law (romans) Common law: judges reinterpret old precedents in the light of new circumstances. Code law (civil law) : categorized by complex bodies of categories and subcategories that give the courts limited discretion in handling particular cases. Judges were strictly obligated to obey, to avoid a government of judges. Required to verify the existence and applicability of statutory norms to a case at hand but could investigate the work of the legislature no further. In the u. s. judges, have always enjoyed great political influence. They have the authority to overturn as unconstitutional decisions of other branches of government. Judges have the power to declare a law unconstitutional (judicial review) Austria, first in europe to introduce constitutional judicial review after wwi. Constitutional review in europe means that only separate, specialized courts, the so-called constitutional courts, exercise review powers. After 1945, many countries decided to introduce such constitutional courts.
